Anzoategui, Venezuela News

Venezuela will put 1,500 people to work clearing up an oil spill at a river in the east of the country that has forced the authorities to close a water purification plant, the environment minister said yesterday.

Crude oil that spilled from a ruptured pipeline has blackened a river in eastern Venezuela, and the state oil company said workers are containing the spill.

In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012, crude oil that spilled from a ruptured pipeline blackens the Guarapiche River, outskirts of Maturin, eastern Venezuela.

Hector Buitrago, who is widely known as "Martin Llanos," was handed over to Colombian authorities at Caracas' international airport along with his brother, Nelson Buitrago, known as "Caballo." They were captured on Saturday at a shopping center in the eastern Venezuelan town of El Tigre.

Venezuelan authorities say the mayor of a small town in eastern Venezuela has been wounded in a shooting along with the local police chief.

Venezuela says it has arrested on murder and drug trafficking charges the last major Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord still at large.

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