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| Venezuela 'sends tanks to border' | |
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| Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered his military to move 10 battalions to the border with Colombia, after Bogota killed a leading rebel. | |
| Speaking on his weekly television show, President Chavez said the country's embassy in Colombia would also close. | Speaking on his weekly television show, President Chavez said the country's embassy in Colombia would also close. |
| Mr Chavez said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was a "criminal". | Mr Chavez said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was a "criminal". |
| He said the killing of Raul Reyes, a top commander of the leftwing Farc rebels, just inside Ecuador on Saturday was a "cowardly murder". | |
| Mr Chavez has been mediating with Farc to secure the release of hostages the rebels hold. | |
| But he lamented the killing of Reyes and at least 16 other Farc rebels when he spoke on his show, "Alo, President". | |
| "It wasn't any combat. It was a cowardly murder, all of it coldly calculated," Mr Chavez said. | |
| Mr Chavez had earlier warned Bogota that any similar incursion into Venezuelan territory would be a "cause for war". | |
| The incursion has also been condemned as "scandalous" by Ecuador's President Rafael Correa |