President Rafael Correa threatened in his weekly radio address to launch a new diplomatic offensive against Colombia if DNA tests confirm that Colombia's military killed an Ecuadorean citizen during its raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador's jungle, AP reported. Colombia responded to Saturday's threat by «reminding the world» that the camp «was a place of terrorists.» The March 1 cross-border raid prompted Ecuador and Venezuela to mobilize troops to their borders. Although tensions were largely defused at a regional summit days later, Correa has yet to return his ambassador to Bogota. If it proves to be Aizalia, rather than a Colombian, Correa vowed «to start an extremely strong diplomatic fight, because we will not leave this killing unpunished.» Correa has not renewed diplomatic ties severed with neighboring Colombia after the raid on a jungle camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC _ an act he denounced as an attack on his country's sovereignty. «How can we renew relations if they keep trying to link us to the FARC to justify their aggression?» he said.
