UPDATE 1-INTERVIEW-Ecuador rejects Interpol laptop report

By Teresa Cespedes and Terry Wade

LIMA, May 16 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa rejected an Interpol report on Thursday that authenticated documents that Colombia says link Ecuador and Venezuela to leftist guerrillas.

In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, Correa also said the OPEC oil cartel should consider raising output to ease the impact of energy costs on poor nations. And he spoke about high-level discussions with his European counterparts regarding Ingrid Betancourt, who was kidnapped by leftist rebels.

Correa, an ideological ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and a fierce U.S. critic, accuses Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of launching a smear campaign against him since Colombian forces struck a FARC rebel camp inside Ecuador in March.

Uribe, who has close ties to Washington, says a FARC laptop computer found at the scene of the raid contained documents proving links to its neighbors. He asked Interpol to investigate, and the international police agency said earlier on Thursday the documents had not been tampered with, but that it could not verify their contents.

Correa said the computer's records were unreliable.

"I have no interest at all in what Interpol has to say," he told Reuters. "What validity does (the report) have?"

Colombia has said the documents show Chavez had contact with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, who have been fighting the Colombian government for decades.

Correa was in Lima, Peru's capital, to attend a summit of European and Latin American leaders amid heightened tensions between the three Andean countries, who looked close to armed conflict in the days after the March attack.