Chavez pulls envoy out of Colombia
From Times Wire Reports
President Hugo Chavez’s government called Venezuela’s ambassador home from Colombia, deepening a diplomatic crisis.
The two countries’ leaders have exchanged increasingly sharp words since Colombia’s conservative President Alvaro Uribe last week ended Chavez’s efforts to broker a prisoner swap to free hostages held by Colombian rebels.
Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo vowed not to recall Colombia’s ambassador in Caracas, insisting his government’s dispute is with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, not Venezuela.
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