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...that Insulza still doesn't face an Andes-sized test in mediating the latest regional crisis. Colombia snubbed the OAS and instead went to the United Nations this week with its complaints against Chavez. Those include what Colombian police call solid evidence gleaned from the laptop computer of the No. 2 commander of the FARC guerrilla army - Raul Reyes, who was killed in Saturday's raid - that Chavez has funneled as much as $300 million to the rebels and should therefore be charged with financing terrorists, who Bogota alleges are also seeking uranium to make a dirty bomb. Uribe, remarkably...
...Chavez is a long-time FARC defender - a policy that hasn't won him any global sympathy - but his government says the Colombian charges are "laughable lies." Chavez, who called Uribe a "war criminal," asserts that Colombia is the "Israel" of South America, by which he meant a nation that believes its fight against terrorists and its U.S. backing give it carte blanche to enter neighboring countries. (The type of Colombian commando unit that killed Reyes is U.S.-trained, as part of Washington's $5 billion-plus Plan Colombia aid program, ostensibly directed at curbing the drug trade.) Although many...
...Colombia will actually go to war, commerce has ground to a near standstill on their border, and Venezuela has shuttered its embassy in Bogota, as has Ecuador. But Correa may turn out to be a help to Insulza in this fracas. He is more measured in his responses than Chavez and Uribe, and said he was "pleased" if not completely satisfied with the OAS resolution. He and Chavez still hope for an OAS condemnation as well as an apology and reassurance from Bogota that future raids will not occur, but Ecuador's Foreign Minister called the resolution "a triumph." What...
...Colombia, still embroiled in a four-decade-old civil war over its deep social inequalities, argues that it wouldn't have had to violate Ecuador's border if Correa, like Chavez, hadn't been harboring FARC militants in his territory. The FARC "is a drug cartel that kills civilians," Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos said in a TIME interview last month. "It's like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hizballah - where are we supposed to draw the line for our security...
...Andean Trade Preference Act, which requires a commitment to drug interdiction. Either way, if the hemisphere excuses the Colombian raid, it would set a precedent that "endangers any one of our countries," said Correa while meeting in Brazil with President Lula before going to Caracas Wednesday to huddle with Chavez...