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Relación Ecuador y Colombia pende de un hilo

Quito - Las relaciones entre Ecuador y Colombia se deterioran y el tono de la confrontación sube aceleradamente, después de que el Gobierno de Quito anunciara la expulsión del embajador colombiano tras retirar a su representante en Bogotá.

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El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, anunció la "expulsión inmediata" del embajador de Colombia en Quito, Carlos Holguín, tras la retirada del suyo en Bogotá, Francisco Suéscum, y pidió la reunión urgente de la OEA, la Comunidad Andina (CAN) y el Mercosur, para tratar el ataque colombiano a territorio ecuatoriano.

FOTOS DE COLOMBIA

A police officer wounded in the line of duty strolls towards the country's capital in La Vega, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Twenty police officers who lost limbs fighting leftist rebels departed on their wheel chairs from Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, on Feb. 18 on a 400-kilometers travel to Bogota to demand the release of hundreds of hostages kidnapped by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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A woman massages a police officer who lost a leg after being wounded in the line of duty during a pause in his journey to the country's capital in La Vega, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. Twenty police officers departed on their wheel chairs from Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, on Feb. 18 on a 400-kilometers travel to Bogota to demand the release of hundreds of hostages kidnapped by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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(FILES) Tourist hot air balloons float during dawn across Egypt's Valley of the Kings, near Luxor on November 15, 2007. Six Colombians and a British national were injured on February 26, 2008 when their hot air balloons crashed around the Nile resort town of Luxor, a security official said. AFP PHOTO/CHARLES ONIANS (Photo credit should read CHARLES ONIANS/AFP/Getty Images)
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(FILES) Tourist hot air balloons float during dawn across Egypt's Valley of the Kings, near Luxor on November 15, 2007. Six Colombians and a British national were injured on February 26, 2008 when their hot air balloons crashed around the Nile resort town of Luxor, a security official said. AFP PHOTO/CHARLES ONIANS (Photo credit should read CHARLES ONIANS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Special Border Vigilance Service Unit of the Panamanian National Police patrol the Biroquera community, Darien province, on the Panamanian border with Colombia, some 300 km east of Panama City, on February 25, 2008. Panama reinforced its extense forest border with Colombia with special units, aerial and maritime support after a clash on February 22 with guerrillas of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) which left a policeman and three rebels wounded. AFP PHOTO / PRESIDENCIA (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Special Border Vigilance Service Unit of the Panamanian National Police patrol the Biroquera community, Darien province, on the Panamanian border with Colombia, some 300 km east of Panama City, on February 25, 2008. Panama reinforced its extense forest border with Colombia with special units, aerial and maritime support after a clash on February 22 with guerrillas of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) which left a policeman and three rebels wounded. AFP PHOTO / PRESIDENCIA (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Special Border Vigilance Service Units of the Panamanian National Police patrol Biroquera community, Darien province, in the Panamanian border with Colombia, some 300 km east of Panama City, on February 25, 2008. Panama reinforced its extense forest border with Colombia with special units, aerial and maritime support after a clash past Friday with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrilla, which left a policeman and three rebels wounded. AFP PHOTO / PRESIDENCY (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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A members of the Special Border Vigilance Service Units of the National Police patrols Biroquera community, Darien province, in the Panamanian border with Colombia, some 300 km east of Panama City, on February 25, 2008. Panama reinforced its extense forest border with Colombia with special units, aerial and maritime support after a clash past Friday with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrilla, which left a policeman and three rebels wounded. AFP PHOTO / PRESIDENCY (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Special Border Vigilance Service Units of the National Police patrol Biroquera community, Darien province, in the Panamanian border with Colombia, some 300 km east of Panama City, on February 25, 2008. Panama reinforced its extense forest border with Colombia with special units, aerial and maritime support after a clash past Friday with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrilla, which left a policeman and three rebels wounded. AFP PHOTO / PRESIDENCY (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Juan Pablo Montoya, top, of Colombia, passes Dale Earnhardt Jr. during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Auto Club 500 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. Earnhardt wrecked on Sunday before rain postponed the race, and finished 47 laps behind the leader. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)
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· Murió en ataque el segundo jefe de FARC

Poco después, el director de la Policía de Colombia, general Oscar Naranjo, mostró unos documentos que supuestamente indican que el Gobierno de Correa tiene "vínculos" con las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC).

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Esos datos fueron encontrados, según Naranjo, en un ordenador del portavoz internacional de la guerrilla, Luis Édgar Devia Silva, más conocido como "Raúl Reyes", muerto el sábado en un ataque colombiano a un campamento rebelde en territorio ecuatoriano.

Según Naranjo, el ministro ecuatoriano de Seguridad, Gustavo Larrea, se habría reunido con Reyes y habría ofrecido a la guerrilla transporte a Quito porque Correa deseaba hablar de "canje humanitario" entre secuestrados por las FARC y guerrilleros presos en Colombia.

Además, dijo Naranjo, Correa habría relevado a militares en la frontera de Ecuador con Colombia por otros más proclives a las FARC y querría hablar con la guerrilla de coordinación fronteriza, lo que fue calificado de "patrañas" por el viceministro de Defensa ecuatoriano, Miguel Carvajal.

Previamente, Correa había acusado al Ministerio de Defensa, a la Cancillería de Colombia y al presidente, Álvaro Uribe, de estar "mintiendo al Ecuador y al mundo", al informar sobre el ataque y negar que se hubiese violado territorio ecuatoriano.

FOTOS DE ECUADOR

A woman protests against an attack, which police say is racially motivated, on an Ecuadorean girl in central Madrid October 27, 2007. After a man assaulted a 16-year-old girl of Ecuador in a local train earlier this month, Ecuador presented a letter to Spain, protesting that it was considered "a xenophobic act" on Tuesday. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN)
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A girl protests against an attack, which police say is racially motivated, on an Ecuadorean girl in central Madrid October 27, 2007. After a man assaulted a 16-year-old girl of Ecuador in a local train earlier this month, Ecuador presented a letter to Spain, protesting that it was considered "a xenophobic act" on Tuesday The placard reads, "Enough. Justice." REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN)
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People protest against an attack, which police say is racially motivated, on an Ecuadorean girl in central Madrid October 27, 2007. After a man assaulted a 16-year-old girl of Ecuador in a local train earlier this month, Ecuador presented a letter to Spain, protesting that it was considered "a xenophobic act" on Tuesday. The placards read, "Respect diversity, Not like this, A racist kick, the inferior salary, A racist kick, the social mistreatment and Coexistence, no racism or violence. " REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN)
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Argentina's singer Mercedes Sosa performs in concert at Ruminahui Coliseum in Quito, Friday, Oct. 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Argentina's singer Mercedes Sosa performs in concert at Ruminahui Coliseum in Quito, Friday, Oct. 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Argentina's singer Mercedes Sosa perfoms in concert at Ruminahui Coliseum in Quito, Friday, Oct. 26, 2007. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, pins a medal on Argentina's singer Mercedes Sosa at a ceremony in her honor in Quito, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. Sosa is in Quito to perform in concert. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, embraces Argentina's singer Mercedes Sosa at a ceremony in her honor in Quito, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. Sosa is in Quito to perform in concert. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Police officers show to the media 7 men in connection with 3,78 tons of clorhidrato of cocaine seized during a police operation called "Huracan Verde" in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Jonny Velez)
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Police officer show 3,78 tons of hydrochloride of cocaine seized during a police operation called Huracan Verde in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Jonny Velez)
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Correa informó de que había ordenado la "movilización de tropas" en la frontera con Colombia y exigió a Uribe no sólo disculpas, sino "compromisos firmes y formales ante la comunidad internacional que garanticen que no se repetirán estos inaceptables hechos".

"Esta es la más grave, artera y verificada agresión que el Gobierno del presidente Uribe ha ocasionado a Ecuador. No permitiremos que este hecho quede en la impunidad. Llamamos a la solidaridad de la comunidad internacional y particularmente regional", dijo Correa.

El mandatario informó de que había hablado con los presidentes de Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, España, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay y Venezuela y los secretarios generales de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) y la CAN.

Además, Correa ha "planteado la elaboración conjunta de una propuesta dirigida a detener este tipo de conductas e impedir la internacionalización del conflicto colombiano".

En su intervención, Correa explicó que "el territorio ecuatoriano ha sido bombardeado y ultrajado intencionadamente por parte de un gobierno extranjero", tras el ataque colombiano a un campamento de las FARC, en el que murieron Reyes y otros 19 guerrilleros, además de tres guerrilleras heridas, cuando la mayoría estaba durmiendo.

Para el gobernante ecuatoriano, "fue una masacre: los aviones colombianos ingresaron al menos 10 kilómetros en nuestro territorio para realizar el ataque desde el sur. Luego llegaron tropas transportadas en helicópteros que culminaron la matanza, incluso se hallaron cadáveres con tiros en la espalda".

Ecuador, según Correa, "conoce la gravedad del conflicto interno colombiano" y ha manifestado su "condena a las acciones y métodos de las FARC", pero "no aceptaremos que a pretexto del combate a lo que ellos llaman terrorismo, se implanten doctrinas y prácticas inaceptables de irespeto a la soberanía de los Estados".

Por su parte, el ministro ecuatoriano de Defensa, Wellington Sandoval, aseguró hoy que su país está listo para defender su territorio frente a cualquier agresión externa y aseguró que "se ha movilizado la cantidad suficiente de tropas de fuerzas especiales" hacia la frontera con Colombia, que está "adecuadamente reforzada".

Larrea, ministro de Seguridad, dijo que su país "ha sido respetuoso del derecho internacional humanitario" y recordó que Ecuador "ha acogido a cientos de miles de ciudadanos colombianos que viven en Ecuador", muchos de ellos huyendo de la violencia.

La canciller ecuatoriana, María Isabel Salvador, dijo por su parte que el proceso de regularización de colombianos residentes en Ecuador (se calcula que en total son medio millón) no se verá afectado por la situación de tensión entre los dos países.

FOTOS DE VENEZUELA

Matvey Korobov, of Russia, celebrates after defeating Alfonso Blanco, of Venezuela, during the final bout in the 75 kilogram class of the World Boxing Championships in Chicago, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. Korobov defeated Blanco by a score of 29-4 to win the Championship. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)
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Matvey Korobov, left, of Russia, trades punches with Alfonso Blanco, of Venezuela, during the final bout in the 75 kilogram class of the World Boxing Championships in Chicago, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. Korobov defeated Blanco by a score of 29-4 to win the Championship. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)
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Matvey Korobov, left, of Russia, punches Alfonso Blanco, of Venezuela, during the final bout in the 75 kilogram class of the World Boxing Championships in Chicago, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. Korobov defeated Blanco by a score of 29-4 to win the Championship. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)
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Matvey Korobov of Russia celebrates defeating Alfonso Blanco of Venezuela during the World Boxing Championship 75kg bout in Chicago, Illinois November 3, 2007. REUTERS/Frank Polich (UNITED STATES)
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Matvey Korobov of Russia (R) punches Alfonso Blanco of Venezuela during their 75kg final AIBA World Boxing Championship bout in Chicago November 3, 2007. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES)
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Matvey Korobov of Russia celebrates defeating Alfonso Blanco of Venezuela fights during their 75kg final AIBA World Boxing Championship bout in Chicago November 3, 2007. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES)
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Matvey Korobov of Russia (R) lands a punch on Alfonso Blanco of Venezuela during the AIBA World Boxing Championship 75kg final bout in Chicago, Illinois November 3, 2007. REUTERS/Frank Polich (UNITED STATES)
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Matvey Korobov of Russia (R) celebrates defeating Alfonso Blanco of Venezuela fights during their 75kg final AIBA World Boxing Championship bout in Chicago, November 3, 2007. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES)
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Alfonso Blanco of Venezuela (R) fights Matvey Korobov of Russia during their 75kg final AIBA World Boxing Championship bout in Chicago November 3, 2007. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES)
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Alfonso Blanco, of Venezuela, wears a flag after his loss to Matvey Korobov, of Russia, in the 75-kilogram final of the World Boxing Championships in Chicago, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007. Korobov won 29-4.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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