Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivers a speech during the signing of agreements with his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe in the Venezuelan city of Punto Fijo, 370 km northwest of Caracas, 24 November 2005.
This file picture taken on August 31, 2007 of then Colombian president Alvaro Uribe (R) and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez shaking hands during a press conference at Hato Grande presidential ranch, in the outskirts of Bogota. Chavez passed away on March 5, 2013 in Caracas after a long fight with cancer, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced.
Pope Benedict XVI leaves his private library after his audience with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at the Vatican on April 30, 2009.
In this Feb. 9, 2013 photo, Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe gestures during an interview in Bogota, Colombia. Uribe s high-profile role in what has become a fierce battle for this Andean nation s future has drawn new scrutiny to his ties to provincial politicians, military officers and landowners accused of backing illegal right-wing death squads that killed thousands of noncombatants in Colombia s decades-old dirty war.
Ivan Marquez, right, chief negotiator for Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and fellow negotiator Ricardo Tellez, left, arrive for the fourth round of negotiations in peace talks with the Colombian government in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Tellez read from a statement that Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe is a "mobster and paramilitary thoroughbred," who would impede an attempted political solution between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels, calling on Saturda, the Colombian people to mobilize in the defense of the peace talks in Havana, Cuba.
People enjoy a drink in a bar in Santo Domingo on March 4, 2008. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe will attend the Grupo de Rio summit to be held on Friday, after Colombia's cross-border raid on the rebel camp which killed FARC's number two commander Raul Reyes, triggered a regional crisis with Venezuela and Ecuador responding by massing troops on their borders with Colombia.
