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Colombian intelligence agencies found that a chief of the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) is present in Venezuelan territory and despite having conveyed "many times" that information to President Hugo Chávez' government "nothing happens," said Colombian Minister of Defense Juan Manuel Santos.

Rebel chief Iván Márquez, the successor of FARC second-in-command Raúl Reyes -who was killed by Colombian troops during a raid in Ecuador last March 1st- "is in Venezuela. Many times have we provided the coordinates and the information (to the Venezuelan government) and nothing happens," Santos lamented.

During an interview with Colombian private radio station La W de Caracol, the minister refrained from commenting on information released by US daily The Wall Street Journal on Friday. According to the news, the US government believes that the files found in Reyes' computer are reliable. The files tie Chávez to the guerrillas, AFP quoted.
 
Meanwhile, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe met on Friday morning with his ambassador to Caracas Fernando Marín to discuss the progress of the Venezuelan-Colombian relations, a high-ranking source of the presidential palace told AFP.

According to the same source, who requested anonymity, Santos and Colombian High Commissioner for Peace Luis Carlos Restrepo had been convened to that meeting.