Columbian Leader 'Wants War'

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa called his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe a liar who "wants war" as a South American diplomatic crisis intensifies.

"If this act goes unpunished, the region will be in danger, because the next victim could be Peru, it could be Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, any one of our countries," Mr Correa said in Peru's capital, Lima.

The row began after Colombian security forces killed more than 20 Colombian guerrillas, including Raul Reyes, a senior member of the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, in Ecuadorian territory.