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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gestures as he evaluates with the progress of ''Battalla Bolivar 200'' (Bolivar Battle 200) with members of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in Caracas July 14, 2010.
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By Frank Jack Daniel
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Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:54pm EDT
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela rejected Colombian charges that it tolerated leftist rebels on its territory and recalled its ambassador on Friday to protest allegations it said were aimed at sabotaging efforts to mend frayed ties.
President Hugo Chavez's government accused outgoing Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of seeking to wreck moves to repair relations with its Andean neighbor before the inauguration next month of Colombia's new head of state, Juan Manuel Santos.
"As these steps (for improved relations) are going ahead, Uribe's government has decided ... to dynamite the rapprochement," Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro told a news conference in Caracas, adding that Caracas was recalling its Bogota ambassador for consultations.
Colombia has said it had proof backing its accusation against the Venezuelan government of leftist Chavez.
Colombian officials said members of guerrilla groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, and National Liberation Army, ELN, are hiding in the jungle on Venezuela's side of the border.
Rejecting the Colombian charges as "an old broken record," Chavez called Uribe a "mafioso ... full of hatred."
"We're not going to be provoked," Chavez said, adding he would give Santos a chance to carry out his declared intentions of improving Colombian relations with Venezuela.
"I'm waiting to see," Chavez said in a broadcast.
Chavez's government would study what "political and diplomatic measures" to take in response to what it called Colombia's "aggression" and these would be announced in due course, Foreign Minister Maduro said.
Uribe's office said it would think about approaching international bodies to mediate in the dispute.
"For six years the Colombian government held a patient dialogue with the Venezuelan government, and on various occasions, gave information about the terrorists' whereabouts. It was all unfruitful," the Colombian presidency said.
In 2008, Bogota released information gleaned from computers taken from a FARC camp that it said showed Chavez had backed the guerrillas financially. Chavez denied the charges.
Maduro said Venezuela's security forces had followed up information given by Colombia about suspected rebel camps. He said the tip-offs had never proved to be correct.
The latest Colombian charges piled more strain on relations already been damaged by a deal letting U.S. forces use Colombian military bases.
'ABSOLUTE RESPECT'
Chavez, whose socialist rhetoric and polices have made him an anti-U.S. and anti-capitalist standard bearer in Latin America and the world, has said that deal threatened Venezuela, and last year he ended trade between the neighbors.
Maduro, declaring he hoped Santos would act quickly to correct Uribe's policies, said Venezuela demanded "absolute respect" for its sovereignty, institutions and head of state.
In a statement earlier on Friday, the Venezuelan government denounced the Colombian charges as a "pathetic spectacle."
It also said the U.S. Embassy in Bogota had been involved in the announcement by the Colombian Defense Ministry on Thursday, and accused it of "intrigue."
Colombia's decades-old guerrilla war often spills into neighboring countries. Two years ago, Colombian forces attacked a FARC camp in Ecuador, killing a top rebel leader.
Ecuador and Venezuela broke diplomatic ties with Colombia over the raid and relations have yet to be fully restored.
Maduro said Venezuela had for years sheltered refugees from Colombia's conflict and that the war should be solved through peace talks rather than through military force.
Chavez denies allegations he supports any guerrilla groups, and says such charges are part of a Washington-led plan to discredit him and his socialist "revolution."
He does not consider the FARC to be a terrorist group and says he cannot take sides in Colombia's internal conflict.
He ordered a slowdown of trade between Venezuela and Colombia last year after Bogota let U.S. forces use Colombian military bases for anti-drug operations. The Venezuelan leader said it could herald a U.S. invasion of his OPEC nation.
Bilateral commerce had totaled some $7 billion annually, and the cutoff exacerbated shortages and fueled high inflation in Venezuela, while slowing Colombia's economic recovery.
Colombia is the main U.S. military ally in South America and has received billions of dollars in U.S. aid to help fight the FARC and ELN, which are funded by kidnapping, extortion and cocaine smuggling.
(Additional reporting by Pascal Fletcher, Writing by Daniel Wallis; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Vicki Allen)
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