Presidential summit produces no concrete results.
Venezuelan motives in ELN guerrilla case remain unclear. Ch vez faces discontent in his own military. Guerrilla activity along 1,400-mile porous border brings problems for both countries. Despite outward appearances of cordiality and friendship between Colombian president Andres Pastrana and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Ch vez when they met outside of Puerto Ordaz, a central Venezuelan mining town, late last month, relations between the two Andean countries are at their lowest point in decades and are not likely to improve any time soon. Last year, the two countries temporarily recalled their respective ambassadors after Ch vez allowed members of the FARC to speak at a forum in the National Assembly in Caracas where they attacked Plan Colombia, the Pastrana government's strategic plan.