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Nicaragua breaks ties with Colombia, widening crisis
Nicaragua broke off diplomatic ties with Colombia on Thursday, widening a Latin American crisis over a raid by Colombia on a rebel camp inside Ecuador last Saturday.
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Venezuela and Ecuador have also cut relations with Colombia and sent troops to their frontiers with the US-backed state in reaction to the cross-border raid, which prompted leftist allies in Latin America to line up against Colombia. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, an ex-guerrilla whose country is in a territorial dispute with Colombia, said he was breaking off relations in solidarity with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who was visiting Managua.
Posted by: Fred 2008-03-08 |
