At one point, the atmosphere became so bitter that Correa walked out of the seaside meeting hall. He returned to denounce Uribe as a liar.
"Your insolence is doing more damage to the Ecuadorean people than your murderous bombs," Correa bellowed into his microphone, "Stop trying to justify the unjustifiable!"
Uribe said his military was forced to act because Colombia's neighbors refused to stop offering haven to the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which finances its anti-government insurgency through kidnapping and drug trafficking. He said the rebels, in turn, have done favors for Chavez and helped Correa get elected.
Uribe held up documents he said were recovered from the laptop of a key FARC leader killed in the raid, Raul Reyes. One, he said, showed Reyes telling the guerrillas' top commander about "aid delivered to Rafael Correa, as instructed."
Colombia's president said he didn't give Correa advance warning of the attack on Ecuadorean soil because "we haven't had the cooperation of the government of President Correa in the fight against terrorism."
Correa countered that Ecuador is a victim of Colombia's conflict, and proposed an international peacekeeping force to guard the border.
Chavez tried to strike a conciliatory tone, noting that the crisis "keeps heating up".
After Colombian planes and commandos killed two dozen people at the rebel camp, Venezuela and Ecuador moved thousands of soldiers to their borders with Colombia. Ecuador and Nicaragua also broke diplomatic relations with Colombia.
Chavez denied Uribe's accusation that he had given $300 million to the Colombian rebels and said he never sent them weapons.
"I have never done it and will never do it," Chavez said, "I could have sent a lot of rifles to the FARC. I will never do it because I want peace."
Chavez then invited in the mother of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt – the highest-profile hostage held by the FARC – and urged Uribe to allow a multinational group into Colombia to negotiated a hostage release.
