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| | The New Yorker: From the Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Bolívar had liberated the present-day states of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Spanish rule, but the larger unification effort turned out to be, he said bitterly, like "plowing the sea." A hundred and seventy years later, the Latin-American republics he dreamed of seeing joined are scarcely closer than they were then. |
 | | Colombia and the Andean mountains lie to the west, and to the east is the tiny former British colony of Guyana. |
 | | Chávez says that Venezuela is neutral in the war that the Colombian Army, various paramilitary organizations, and the guerrillas have been fighting for forty years, and he has offered to mediate in peace negotiations. |
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