Venezuela Recalls Ambassador to Protest Kidnapping Colombian Rebel Leader

On January 13, 2005, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced Venezueala had recalled its ambassador to Colombia, whilst accusing the Colombian government of having bribed Venezuelan authorities to kidnap on December 13, 2004, in a subway station in Caracas, Venezuela Rodrigo Granda, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and take him across the border to the Colombian city of Cucutá. Mr. Chávez announced the recall a day after Colombia admitted it had paid an unspecified award to bounty hunters to capture Mr. Granda...