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摘要

For four days, several Venezuelan helicopters and an international reception committee including Nestor Kirchner, Argentina's former president, and Oliver Stone, a Hollywood filmmaker, waited at the airport in Villav-icencio, a town in the Colombian lowlands, for the left-wing guerrillas of the farc to fulfil a promise to release three of the hostages they have held for years. In Caracas, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's leftist president, to whom the farc had made the pledge, stood by with the captives' relatives. But this bizarre show ended without a denouement on New Year's Eve, and with Mr Chavez and his entourage embarrassed.