Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe rejected on Thursday the installation of a bust of Manuel Marulanda, the late founder of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in a Venezuelan border town and asked people "to defeat terrorists wherever they are."

"Colombians consider that rather than a tribute, this bust is a sign that our country has to defeat crime, terrorism and drug trafficking," Uribe told journalists.

"I would say that people who try to pay homage to terrorists are giving Colombians the possibility to recall that we must defeat terrorists wherever they are. Let's see the good part," Uribe said, as reported by AFP.

The bust of Marulanda is near a military garrison in the town of El Amparo, in the state of Apure. According to video images broadcast by Colombian TV stations the bust has been installed near statues of Liberator Simón Bolívar, revolutionary fighter Ernesto Che Guevara, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Source: ElUniversal.com