Weekly Report - 05 July 2005

The suggestion by Colombian authorities that the recent deadly attack by Farc guerrillas on Teteyé [WR-05-25] in which 22 soldiers were killed had actually been launched from Ecuadorean territory has triggered a string of charges and countercharges that have considerably soured relations between the two countries. President Alvaro Uribe and Alfredo Palacio are due to discuss the spillover of the war at a meeting on 7 July in San José, on the sidelines of a summit on bananas.