1.   According to officials of the Brazilian National Indian Affairs Institute, the massacre occurred in Roraima state, near the Venezuelan border.

2.   Almost daily, she retrieves corpses from the banks of the Catatumbo River or from the muddy road that leads into this remote northern village near the Venezuelan border.

3.   Almost daily, she retrieves corpses from the banks of the Catatumbo River or from the road that leads into this remote northern village near the Venezuelan border.

4.   However, moments later, word came that three bodies had turned up on the Venezuelan border.

5.   Last year, Venezuelan authorities detained six Colombian paramilitaries in the Venezuelan border state of Apure.

6.   Most of the prospective sites so far are in the northern half of Guyana, near the Venezuelan border.

7.   The kidnapping occurred along a road in eastern Arauca Province, not far from the Venezuelan border, when the rebels stopped a convoy of vehicles carrying the workers.

8.   There were no bidders for a minority stake in Termotasajero, a coal plant near the Venezuelan border.

9.   A police officer trying to deactivate an explosive device was killed Friday in Puerto Santander, on the Venezuelan border, when the device went off, authorities said.

10.   Authorities have launched a major anti-drug offensive in this remote eastern region near the Venezuelan border -- fumigating the green fields and setting jungle cocaine laboratories on fire.