Fidel Castro blames US for rising tensions between Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia

Fidel Castro blamed the U.S. for bringing Colombia to the brink of a military clash with neighboring Venezuela and Ecuador, writing on Monday that «genocidal plans of the Yankee empire» created tensions between the South American nations. Venezuela and Ecuador ordered troops to their borders with Colombia and withdrew their ambassadors from Bogota after Colombia killed a top rebel leader, Raul Reyes, on Ecuadorean soil on Saturday. «We can plainly hear the trumpets of war to the south of our continent as a consequence of genocidal plans of the Yankee empire,»