A rescue worker helps onto an ambulance a man wounded by the explosion of a car bomb in a shopping center's garage in the Colombian city of Cucuta, in the northeastern border with Venezuela, Wednesday, March 5, 2003. The local police commander blamed Colombia's second largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army, ELN, for the attack that killed seven people and wounded 20 others. (AP Photo/Efrain Patino) - Mar 05 4:23 PM ET
Shopping centre bomb kills seven (Colombia) *** AT least seven people have been killed and 50 injured after a car bomb exploded in the north-eastern Colombian city of Cucuta. The bomb was believed to have been planted by National Liberation Army guerrillas, officials said. The governor of Norte de Santander province, Juan Santaella, called the attack "a real tragedy" for the city, which is near the border with Venezuela. The car bomb exploded in the parking garage of a shopping centre. Another explosion today killed one soldier and injured three others in the outskirts of Carmen de Bolivar, some 950km north of Bogota, according to military sources. Officials suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels of carrying out that attack. ***
Venezuelan anti-bomb squadron officers inspect the debris of a house after a suspect car bomb exploded in Maracaibo, western Venezuela March 2, 2003. The car bomb exploded in a residential neighborhood damaging several houses. There were no reports of casualties. REUTERS/Argenis Mavarez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said March 6, 2003 that the country is lifting a force majeure on all crude and product exports that had been severely disrupted by a two-month opposition strike. Chavez holds a boot as he speaks during his weekly broadcast 'Alo President ' the at Hydroelectric Power Plant in Caruachi, in southeastern Venezuela, on March 2. (Miraflores Palace via Reuters)
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Venezuelan central bank director warns against denying dollars to newspapers*** CARACAS, Venezuela - A central bank director warned President Hugo Chavez's government Thursday against using a new foreign exchange system to deprive newspapers of dollars needed to buy newsprint. Domingo Maza Zavala said the government should consider the print media a priority when deciding who can buy dollars under the new system. Chavez, who accuses Venezuela's main newspapers of supporting efforts to overthrow him, has said priority will go to importers of basics like food and medicine. "Everything else will have to wait," he said last week. ***