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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
"Colombia is becoming a factor of ... uncertainty for Latin America," said Ortega, a former Marxist revolutionary
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela and Ecuador mass troops on the Colombian border as rhetoric about a rebel ratchets higher. But the real risk may be to the Venezuelan President
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia probably has little to fear, at least militarily. It's better armed than Ecuador and Venezuela, which both moved troops toward the border
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuador broke diplomatic relations with Colombia on Monday, adding fuel to a bitter, three-nation dispute over a Colombian military strike on Ecuadorean soil
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
There is little appetite for armed conflict in the region despite Chavez's recent purchases of $3 billion in Russian arms, including 53 military helicopters, 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles and 24 SU-30 Sukhoi fighter jets
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
There are at least six reasons to doubt that the bluster could morph into bullets
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More accusations of cross-border meddling intensified diplomatic tensions Monday between Colombia and its neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela, as other Latin American leaders tried to defuse a crisis
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Monday his government had been close to securing a deal with Colombian FARC rebels to free 12 hostages, including French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt
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The raid, in which Raul Reyes, a Farc commander was killed, has sparked a widening diplomatic row
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Analysts say Venezuela's army would be no match for an adversary with 254,000 people on active service - more than twice the size of Venezuela's 115,000-strong force