11.   Both attacks this week were in Arauca, near the Venezuelan border.

12.   Colombian rebels attacked a Venezuelan border outpust early Sunday, killing eight soldiers and wounding four.

13.   Colombian rebels often cross the Venezuelan border to kidnap and extort Venezuelan ranchers and businessmen.

14.   For commerce, he proposed a navigable link between the Araguaia and Tocantins Rivers and a road from Manaus to the Venezuelan border.

15.   Police have not said who they believe killed Colmenares, an opposition Liberal Party representative from Arauca, an oil-rich and violent state near the Venezuelan border.

16.   The highway had already connected Boa Vista with the southeast Venezuelan border city of Santa Elena de Urairen.

17.   The hostages were being held by Colombian guerrillas in a camp just over the Venezuelan border, officials said.

18.   The freed pilot and co-pilot flew the twin-engine Beechcraft from Colombia to the Venezuelan border town of Guasdualito on Sunday.

19.   The hostages had been held by Colombian guerrillas in a camp just over the Venezuelan border, officials said.

20.   Their wounds were not life-threatening, Yurisa Tegria told The Associated Press by telephone from Cubara, a town near the Venezuelan border where the incident occurred.