Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador in tense standoff after raid/ La muerte de Reyes enfrenta a Colombia con Ecuador y Venezuela

Venezuela and Ecuador moved their troops to their border with Colombia and engaged in a war of words as they found themselves Monday in tense standoff over Colombia's anti-guerrilla raid into Ecuador. Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said late Sunday he had ordered the deployment of troops to the northern border and an "immediate expulsion" of Colombian Ambassador Carlos Holguin as a result of Saturday's raid, in which Raul Reyes, the second-ranking commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was killed ( full information)/ La muerte del 'número dos' de las FARC, "Raúl Reyes", en un bombardeo del Ejército colombiano en territorio ecuatoriano ha desencadenado una grave crisis diplomática entre Colombia por una parte, y Ecuador y Venezuela por otra. Indignado con la incursión colombiana, Ecuador ha llamado a consultas a su embajador en Bogotá y su presidente, Rafael Correa, ha criticado duramente a su homólogo colombiano, Álvaro Uribe. El presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, ha salido en defensa de Correa. Ambos países han mandado a sus Ejércitos a proteger la frontera ( información completa)