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BORDER TROUBLES * Venezuela - Dispute halts Colombian trade toward Venezuela
La Raya, Venezuela -Reuters, by Manuel Hernandez -March 4 2008: -- Colombian trade to Venezuela has been halted along the border amid a diplomatic crisis that threatens the stability of the Andean region, witnesses and a transport association said on Tuesday... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks to the border after Colombian security forces killed leftist rebels in an attack on Ecuadorean territory, escalating tensions in a dispute Chavez says could lead to war... Arsenio Manzanero, director of Venezuela's main transportation chamber, said the movement of goods was halted at three border crossings because Venezuelan customs agents were not working... Trucks formed long lines on the Colombian side of the border. Individual drivers crossed into Venezuela normally... Military and customs officials along the border also declined to comment to Reuters...
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