Weekly Report - 19 March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said this week that he would organise a meeting between Presidents Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua to resolve their dispute over a shared maritime border in the Caribbean. The Venezuelan leader said that he rang Uribe on 15 March and Ortega to fix a meeting. Both presidents said that they would be prepared to meet each other, though it is not clear what role, if any, Chávez would have, especially given the tension between him and Uribe over his mediation between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).