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Crisis Deepens as Colombia Links Ecuador to FARC

Posted Mar 3, 08 9:45 AM CST in World 

(Newser) – The tension in Latin America deepened last night as a Colombian general charged that Ecuador’s president had ties to a FARC leader killed by Colombian forces Saturday. Ecuador and Venezuela have both mobilized troops to their borders in response to the raid, which they claim took place on Ecuadorean territory. Colombia says its forces, attacking targets in Colombia, merely returned fire when FARC rebels shelled them from about a mile inside Ecuador.

"There is not any justification for foreign military action in our territory," said Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa, who has also expelled Colombia’s ambassador and withdrawn his country’s delegation. The attack killed FARC’s second-in-command, known as “Raul Reyes,” and numerous others. The Colombian charges, based on documents found in computers captured in the raid, are lies, an Ecuadorean spokesman told the AP.

Sources: CNN, CNN, Press Association

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Columbian Gen. Oscar Naranjo, reads copies of documents seized by Colombian security forces during an attack on a rebel camp in Ecuador during a press conference at the presidential palace in Bogota,...   (Associated Press)
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa speaks during a nationally broadcast speech at the presidential palace in Quito, Sunday, March 2, 2008. Correa ordered the expulsion of Colombia's ambassador in Ecuador...   (Associated Press)
Venezuelan soldiers lines up prior to board a military transport at Fort Paramacay in Valencia, Venezuela, Sunday, March 2, 2008. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops...   (Associated Press)
Ecuadorian Army soldiers walk past the bodies of alleged rebels killed in Angostura, Ecuador, near the border with Colombia, Sunday, March 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Ruben Rojas)   (Associated Press)
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