Colombia accuses Ecuado's Correa of FARC ties

FARC rebel commander Raul Reyes was killed inside Ecuador in an operation that has fueled tensions between Colombia and neighbors Venezuela and Ecuador.

"In the belongings of Raul Reyes found by the police and the Colombian forces were three computers ... in the next few minutes Police Commander Gen. Oscar Naranjo will show document found in those computers which show evidence that the president of Ecuador, President Correa, has relations with the FARC," a presidential spokesman told reporters.

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(AGI) - Bogotá, 3 March - The documents found in the encampment of Raul Reyes, the second in command of the FARC killed on Saturday, show that Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has "connections" with the guerrilla group. This is just the latest sensational news to hit the scene in the growing tensions between South American countries. The accusation have been voiced by the Bogota government, with the Colombian police chief, General Oscar Naranjo, saying that the link is proved by documents found on one of the three computers belonging to the international spokesman of the revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who was killed in bombing of Ecuadorian territory.

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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has often accused the FARC of using Venezuelan and Ecuadorean territory as safe havens from military attacks.

The raid has sparked a diplomatic crisis, with Ecuador and Venezuela sending troops to their frontiers with Colombia. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a similar raid on his country would be a declaration of war.

Mr Chavez also mobilised warplanes and withdrew all of his diplomats from Bogota in the worst dispute in the unstable region for years.

Mr Correa, a close ally of the leftist, anti-US Chavez, expelled Colombia's ambassador and withdrew his own envoy from Bogota in protest against what he said was an intentional violation of his nation's sovereignty.

Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo said in a televised statement that it had been "indispensable" for Colombian troops to enter Ecuadorean territory during the raid.

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