Colombia's Uribe 'wants war', says Ecuador's president

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa called his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe a liar who “wants war”, following a raid against guerrillas that set off a diplomatic crisis.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa called his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe a liar who “wants war”, following a raid against guerrillas that set off a diplomatic crisis.

“If this act goes unpunished, the region will be in danger, because the next victim could be Peru, it could be Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, any one of our countries,” Mr Correa said in Peru’s capital, Lima.

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