Embassy to reopen in Colombia
Venezuela said it is reopening its embassy in Colombia and will allow back Colombian diplomats expelled last week by President Hugo Chavez in a crisis sparked by a cross-border Colombian attack on rebels in Ecuador.
The government cited an easing of tensions at a summit in the Dominican Republic on Friday, where Chavez and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa shook hands with Colombia’s U.S.-backed leader, Alvaro Uribe, after a tense debate.
Chavez ordered the Venezuelan Embassy in Bogota closed and sent troops to the border with Colombia after Colombia’s March 1 strike in Ecuador that killed 25 people, including Raul Reyes, a spokesman and top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
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