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Monday, March 10, 2008
Tensions between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela subsided further after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised to pull back troops deployed along the border with Colombia.
The troops will start returning and will be allowed to go on Easter leave, the Venezuelan leader announced recently. Chavez had deployed 10 army battalions to the Colombian border in the wake of Colombia's March 1 raid on a rebel camp inside Ecuador, prompting Quito and Caracas to suspend relations with Bogot. The three countries resolved the dispute at a Latin American summit in Santo Domingo, with Colombia promising never to repeat such raid again.
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