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CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced he was freezing bilateral relations with neighbouring Colombia, after Bogota dropped him as a mediator during talks with Colombian leftist rebels on a hostage swap.
Chavez said he was putting bilateral ties in the "freezer", after Colombian President Alvaro Uribe dropped him and a dialogue facilitator, Colombian senator Piedad Cordoba, in negotiations towards the swap of leftist rebels for high profile hostages guerrillas hold.
- AAP
