Weekly Report - 08 July 2010 (WR-10-27)

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa is sending out mixed messages to Colombia's president-elect Juan Manuel Santos. On the one hand, he has accepted an invitation to the investiture of Santos on 7 August and promised to work towards restoring full diplomatic relations with Colombia. On the other hand, he claimed this week that “regrettably" Santos could be arrested if he visited Ecuador because of the current judicial process against him for orchestrating the cross-border raid on a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) camp in Ecuador in March 2008.

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