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Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
The Colombian government said on Sunday it had been necessary for Colombian troops to enter Ecuador for a military operation during which it killed a top FARC guerrilla commander
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuador and Venezuela have moved troops to their borders with Colombia in an escalating row over the killing of a Farc rebel leader in Ecuador
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last night ordered troops and tanks to mass on the border with Colombia as he threatened war with his US-backed neighbour
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The two presidents may remain political foes until they end their terms in office, but they are unlikely to become military ones, if only because most Colombians and Venezuelans do not have the stomach for it
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
The danger that tensions between Colombia and Venezuela could erupt into open conflict is increasing, in part because of Mr Chavez’s increasingly explicit sympathy for the left-wing Colombian guerrillas
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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
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his country's embassy in neighboring Colombia to close and told his military to move tank battalions to the border
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela and Ecuador mobilized troops to their borders with Colombia on Sunday, intensifying a diplomatic crisis after Colombian forces killed a senior guerrilla leader
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
Calling a Colombian military strike that killed a guerrilla commander "a cowardly assassination," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday closed his country's embassy in Colombia and ordered tanks, planes and thousands of troops