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

The Organization of American States (OAS) approved a resolution in the early hours of 18 March issuing Colombia with a mild rebuke for its bombing of a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) camp on Ecuadorean soil on 1 March. It differed very little in substance from the Rio Group resolution released 10 days earlier. Ecuador had wanted Colombia explicitly condemned for the action. It had to settle for an article which used the word "reject" in relation to the military incursion. While the Colombian government managed to save face, however, it suffered a setback in its efforts to link Ecuadorean authorities to the Farc.