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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, Raśl Reyes (above). The incursion roiled an already tense neighborhood and prompted Ecuador and Venezuela to send troops to their borders with Colombia...
...ACCUSATIONS Ecuador denounced the violation of its sovereignty, but Colombian officials countered by saying the raid yielded evidence that FARC had met with Ecuadoran officials--and that the group was trying to build radioactive dirty bombs...
...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, even asked...
...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...
...getting global kudos for sending his troops over a neighbor's border on Saturday in an operation denounced by Ecuador's leftist President and Chavez ally Rafael Correa as a brazen violation of sovereignty. But the hemisphere has cooled considerably toward Chavez's antics, and his defense of the FARC, which earns hundreds of million dollars a year via ransom kidnapping and protecting cocaine trafficking, isn't winning him much international sympathy. A war on his western border could also prove how freely the FARC roams inside Venezuelan territory - an allegation Chavez denies, along with the assertion by Colombian police...