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| Thousands of Venezuelan troops supported by tanks are moving towards the border with Colombia, Venezuela's defence minister has said. | Thousands of Venezuelan troops supported by tanks are moving towards the border with Colombia, Venezuela's defence minister has said. |
| President Hugo Chavez ordered 10 battalions to the border on Sunday after Colombian troops killed a top Farc rebel leader in Ecuador. | President Hugo Chavez ordered 10 battalions to the border on Sunday after Colombian troops killed a top Farc rebel leader in Ecuador. |
| Venezuelan Gen Jesus Gonzalez said almost 90% of the troops ordered to the border were in place. | Venezuelan Gen Jesus Gonzalez said almost 90% of the troops ordered to the border were in place. |
| Ecuador has also mobilised troops after the cross-border raid on Saturday. | Ecuador has also mobilised troops after the cross-border raid on Saturday. |
| Venezuelan Defence Minister Gustavo Rangel said the armed forces were "ready to defend the sacred sovereignty of the homeland". | Venezuelan Defence Minister Gustavo Rangel said the armed forces were "ready to defend the sacred sovereignty of the homeland". |
| 'We were bombed' | |
| The cross-border raid into Ecuadorian territory by Colombian forces to kill a leftist rebel leader from the Farc (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) has sparked a growing row. | The cross-border raid into Ecuadorian territory by Colombian forces to kill a leftist rebel leader from the Farc (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) has sparked a growing row. |
| I insist on this: Ecuador is ready to go to the ultimate consequences Rafael CorreaEcuadorean president | |
| Both Venezuela and Ecuador have broken off diplomatic ties with Bogota. | |
| Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said he wants the international community to condemn Colombia's actions and for Bogota to apologise for the raid. | |
| "There has been an aggression. The aggressor has to apologise and the international community has to condemn it," he said in Brasilia before meeting Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. | |
| "Otherwise we will have to defend ourselves by our own means. I insist on this: Ecuador is ready to go to the ultimate consequences. | |
| "Nobody wants war. But we won't fool ourselves. The war was started by Colombia. We were bombed." | |
| Mr Correa has been visiting Latin American capitals to bolster support for his position.Latin American governments have criticised Colombia for the raid but have urged the three countries not to escalate the crisis. | |
| On Wednesday, Washington said it was confident the crisis would be resolved peacefully. | |
| "We definitely think this can be solved through dialogue," President George W Bush's spokeswoman Dana Perino said. | |
| Meanwhile, the Pentagon played down Venezuela's troop movements. An anonymous defence official told AFP news agency: "There is not as much to it as has been reported". | |
| 'Farc link' | |
| Colombia has said it regrets conducting the cross-border raid but that it was necessary "in the fight against terrorism", Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo said on Monday. | |
| Colombian forces struck against a Farc jungle camp a few kilometres inside Ecuador early on Saturday morning. | |
| Reyes was Farc's first secretariat member to be killed in combat Farc 'invincibility' shatteredBorders: A sensitive issueTies hit all-time low | |
| One of the Farc's most senior commanders, Raul Reyes, was killed along with 16 other rebels. | |
| Colombia says documents were found at the camp that link both Ecuador and Venezuela to the Colombian rebel group. | |
| Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said he would not allow his country to be drawn into open war with his neighbours but that his military would target the Farc "wherever they are". | |
| He said he was not mobilising Colombian troops in response to Venezuela's and Ecuador's deployments. | |
| Colombia receives billions of dollars in aid from the US to fight the Farc, which the US and the EU view as a terrorist organisation. |