Colombia Protests
Comments By Nicaragua's
President
Colombia on Friday
protested about comments
made by Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega
in which he called
Colombian leader Alvaro
Uribe a "terrorist" for
ordering the bombing of
a Marxist rebel camp
inside Ecuador in March.
"He says he's fighting
terrorism but he's the
terrorist," left-winger
Ortega said at a meeting
in his Central American
country attended by
survivors of the raid in
which a key Colombian
guerrilla leader was
killed.
Colombia shot back a
letter to Nicaragua
"rejecting most
energetically" Ortega's
comments, which were
made on Thursday.
Uribe, a conservative
White House ally who has
used billions of dollars
in U.S. military aid to
combat the
four-decade-old
Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, or
FARC, has often sparred
verbally with Ortega.
The two criticized each
other in the weeks after
the raid, which prompted
the leftist governments
of Ecuador and Venezuela
to briefly reinforce
troops on their
Colombian borders.
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