1.   Brazilian and Colombian army officers subsequently met in the Colombian border town of Letcia to discuss joint action against the rebels.

2.   Mt Galeras is in the Andes mountain range near the Colombian border with Ecuador.

3.   Four armed men, working for Colombian rebels, took him to the Colombian border.

4.   Gasoline, for example, is often smuggled from Venezuela to Colombian border towns.

5.   Officials initially said the quake was located in the state of Tachira, near the Colombian border.

6.   Polar now supplies the Colombian market from its Modelo brewery, located in the western state of Zulia, on the Colombian border.

7.   The Darien, near the Colombian border, has long been a supply and rest area for guerrillas.

8.   The move follows creation of a similar force on the Colombian border.

9.   Their bodies were dumped in Venezuela, just north of the Colombian border.

10.   Panama, which has no army, last week dispatched additional police to guard two villages near the Colombian border after some residents fled in fear of the guerrillas.