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Uribe calls "very serious" destruction of pedestrian bridges

Western Hemisphere Colombia's President, Álvaro Uribe, described as "very serious" the bombing of two makeshift foot bridges across the border by Venezuelan military, but insisted on maintaining a conciliatory tone.

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"Interestingly, and at the same time disappointingly, the Unasur, which precisely pursues at the Defense Council tranquility, stability and peace in the region, has said nothing" (about the warlike wording of Hugo Chávez).

Colombian FM Jaime Bermúdez

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TV channel director reports violation of rights to IACHR

Politics

Alberto Federico Ravell, director of private TV news channel Globovisión, met with Santiago Cantón, the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR.

Public expenditure becomes less effective to boost GDP

Economy

Among the factors that boost production in Venezuela, public expenditure is the only indicator that kept rising during the third quarter of the year. The other drivers, such as investment, consumption and exports have declined.

Elides J. Rojas L. / If Chávez sinks, we will have lost everything

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My-president-commander must know something that everyone else does not know. He has been speaking of defeat one year before the election for the National Assembly. He has thought about the possibility that voters, either revolutionary or not, ask him to go and jump in a lake. And he has warned: if that happens, everything will be lost.

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Venezuelan oil basket up slightly to USD 72.75

The basket of crude oil and refined products for export rose five cents over last week, when it averaged USD 72.70 (File Photo)

The price of Venezuelan oil basket slightly increased this week to reach an average of USD 72.75, reported on Friday the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum.

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"Fourth-generation war on the border"

Western Hemisphere The message of Hugo Chávez to "officers and the whole people" to "prepare for war" resounded in the war drums in front of Bogotá.

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