The Guardian (UK)
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuador and Venezuela today pressed for stronger action to be taken against Colombia over a military raid on a rebel camp a mile inside Ecuador
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuador, which borders Colombia to the south, cut diplomatic ties and sent thousands of troops to its border. Venezuela, to the north, did the same thing
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
The allegation - made by the Colombian vice-president, Francisco Santos, to a UN disarmament forum in Geneva, and not backed up with any evidence - was the latest salvo in a series of claims and counter-claims
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
None of the South American leaders embroiled in the Farc-raid furore wants an armed fight. They are playing to the domestic gallery
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
There was no sign of imminent conflict but the war of words escalated when Colombia accused Chavez of bankrolling the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
There is little prospect of immediate all-out hostilities but relations between the two governments are so toxic that an incident on their 1,370-mile border, a porous and largely lawless zone of guerrillas and smugglers, could swiftly escalate
Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 00:00
In the most severe military blow ever to Colombia's Marxist rebels, government forces have killed the number two guerrilla leader in a pre-dawn cross-border air raid
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 00:00
The hardline attitude of President Alvaro Uribe's conservative government to the rebels has blocked efforts to free hostages and Chavez has used his influence with Farc to break the deadlock
Friday, February 22, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia is the sixth-biggest coal exporter in the world, and the tenth-biggest producer
Friday, February 22, 2008 - 00:00
Brazil's popular president is emerging as the most credible leader of the Latin American left. Can he justify that faith?