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Venezuela Kidnap Row ‘Risked War’

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says that a diplomatic spat with Colombia over the capture of a rebel commander in Caracas could have led to war. He said he now considered the crisis “practically” over. The dispute arose after Bogota admitted that it paid bounty hunters to capture a Colombian Marxist guerrilla in the Venezuelan capital. Full Story