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Andean Group - March 2008 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Colombia kills Farc leader

On 1 March Colombia awoke to the news that its air force had killed Raúl Reyes, the second-in-command of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). For a few hours the government and its many supporters celebrated the most significant single blow that the Farc has ever suffered, but this jubilation was soon replaced by concern at a rapid deterioration in Colombia's ties with Ecuador, upon whose territory Reyes was killed, and Venezuela, whose President Hugo Chávez was outraged at the incursion and at the "murder" of "a good revolutionary". Colombia responded to accusations that it had violated Ecuador's sovereignty by claiming to have discovered documents on Reyes' computer showing that both Ecuador and Venezuela were cooperating extensively with the Farc.

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