Ecuador and Venzuela order troops to the border

CNN:

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa withdrew his government's ambassador in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered troops to the country's border following a Colombian raid against leftist rebels inside Ecuador.

In a televised address, Correa called a raid by Colombian national police and air force one day earlier a "massacre" that killed civilians.

The strike at dawn Saturday killed two leading figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist movement that has fought a guerrilla war against the country's government for some 40 years. One of the dead was FARC's second-in-command, Luis Edgar Devia Silva, known as "Raul Reyes."

The incident has triggered a crisis among the three countries, as Venezuela President Hugo Chavez also ordered 10 battalions of troops to the Colombian border and the closure of Venezuela's embassy in Bogota.

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They are apparently not ordering them to stop the FARC terrorist from seeking sanctuary in their countries. Their act of giving sanctuary to the terrorist is an act of war against Columbia, which responded with a very targeted raid on a group of murderers. With Correa and Chavez embracing the murderers openly now is reveals their nature. It is similar to the reaction in Iran and in Hezballah circles when a wanted terrorist was killed in Syria recently. All pretensions of favoring the rule of law are dropped and they rush to the side of the their terrorists.

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