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Weekly Report - 10 January 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Emmanuel fails but new rescue mission launched
It was perhaps fitting that the name Emmanuel should attract international
attention at Christmas. President Hugo Chávez masterminded a mission, codenamed
"Operation Emmanuel", to collect the eponymous three-year-old boy and
his mother Clara Rojas from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).
Senator Consuelo González completed the trio of hostages. Before the 12 days of
Christmas were up it had ended in farce: the Farc discredited; Chávez
humiliated; and President Alvaro Uribe vindicated in his distrust of the Farc.
As this issue goes to press, however, another rescue operation is being mounted
after Chávez announced that the Farc was ready to hand over Rojas and González.
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- BOLIVIA: Morales and prefects agree "national unity pact"
- PERU: García tilts rightwards
- ECUADOR: Nebot re-emerges as Correa's main opponent
- TRACKING TRENDS
- CHILE: Concertación loses control of congress
- ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA & BRAZIL: Bolivia reduces gas supplies to neighbours
- BRAZIL: Military may have to face up to violent past
- PARAGUAY: Colorados plunged into disarray
- TRACKING TRENDS
- GUATEMALA: Colom names cabinet
- HONDURAS: FM resigns after drunken scuffle with police
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Tit for tat killings in Tamaulipas
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Fidel backs Raúl's reforms in Cuba
- Quotes of the week