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Venezuela Military Becomes Embroiled in Colombian War - Bombs Village In Support of FARC*** LA GABARRA, Colombia -- Maria, a wizened 57-year-old farmer's wife, lives in a plank-board shack in Santa Isabel, a village on the River of Gold that serves as Colombia's muddy border with Venezuela. Shortly after breakfast one day last month, she and several dozen families watched grimly as Colombia's long war arrived swiftly along Santa Isabel's single dirt street. Violence has washed over the village for years, but never in the way she witnessed that sweltering March 21.

Maria and a dozen frightened neighbors said hundreds of guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attacked their town from Venezuela, crossing the river to engage an anti-guerrilla paramilitary force occupying several riverside villages. Within an hour, Maria saw Venezuelan military aircraft swoop over her village to bomb paramilitary positions inside Colombia supporting the rebel advance.***

14 posted on 04/15/2003 2:56:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Hmmm....does the phrase "ACT OF WAR" mean anything? Perhaps we should go to the aid of our Colombian allies and get rid of Chavez.
38 posted on 04/15/2003 2:38:29 PM PDT by Windcatcher ("So what did Doug use?" "He used...sarcasm!")
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