It's getting interestinger and interestinger down there.
The story is surfacing in a number of places, including the BBC.
This from the Kansas City Star:
Venezuela called its ambassador home from Bogota for consultations Friday to protest accusations by the outgoing Colombian government that rebel leaders are taking refuge inside its borders.
Colombian officials have long complained, mostly in private, that President Hugo Chavez has harbored leaders of its two main rebel groups.
But on Thursday, Colombia's Defense Ministry showed video, photographs and satellite images to Colombian journalists behind closed doors that it said proved the presence of rebel leaders in neighboring Venezuela.
Colombia's hard-line president, Alvaro Uribe, leaves office on Aug. 7. He's been widely credited for seriously weakening Colombia's leftist insurgencies, one of which killed his father in a botched 1983 kidnapping.
Because he has frequently feuded with Chavez, many Colombians believe the renewed accusations show Uribe's dissatisfaction with the olive branch that Colombia's president-elect, Juan Manuel Santos, has extended to Chavez.
Trade between Venezuela and Colombia has fallen 70 percent in the past year since Chavez froze relations over Colombia's signing of an agreement with the United States granting Washington expanded access to its military bases.
Waiting to see how the White House and Foggy Bottom will hang the Colombians out to dry for having the temerity to actually oppose their boy Chavez to his face.
Not if.
How.
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