It seemed like just yesterday that President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was calling President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia a “pawn of the American empire” and comparing him to Don Vito Corleone, with Mr. Uribe lashing back by threatening to sue Mr. Chávez for the “financing of genocidists.”
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