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...Colombia's U.S.-backed military crossed into Ecuador on March 1 and killed up to 24 guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)--including a leader, Raúl Reyes (above). The incursion roiled an already tense neighborhood and prompted Ecuador and Venezuela to send troops to their borders with Colombia...
WILL THERE BE WAR? Ecuador's President called the raid a "massacre," and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez added his own bombast about U.S. efforts to spark a regional conflict. But experts say Venezuela and Ecuador rely too much on trade with Colombia to start...
...escalating crisis between Colombia and its neighbors is more than just a case of Andean road rage. It exposes volatile political fault lines not seen in the Americas in a generation. On one side stand President Bush and regional allies led by conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whose army is accused of invading Ecuador last weekend to kill a Marxist guerrilla boss. Against them stand Venezuela's left-wing President Hugo Chavez, whom Uribe accuses of sponsoring those rebels, and friends such as Ecuador's President Rafael Correa...
...Washington, D.C.-based body - which has, since its founding in 1948, too often been hamstrung by a domineering U.S. and Latin America's non-interventionist dogma - issued a resolution that appears to have cooled torrid temperatures in South America a few degrees. The document includes no outright condemnation of Colombia, as Correa and Chavez had demanded, but it calls Colombia's cross-border incursion a violation of international law and calls for an OAS investigative team, as requested by Correa, to visit the site of the raid - moves Uribe and the U.S. had resisted. As a result, says Peter Hakim...
...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...