Clara Rojas
Congresswoman Clara Rojas is a lawyer and former personal assistant of Ingrid Betancourt, known...
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Victim congresswomen resigns from Peace Commission after verbal attack by FARC
A FARC victim and congresswoman has removed herself from Colombia’s Peace Commission because of comments made about her by the FARC rebel group. Clara Rojas’ legitimacy as a victim was questioned by the FARC on the...
FARC backpedals on statement denying congresswoman as victim
Colombia’s largest rebel group has publicly rejected a statement it published earlier this...
Prominent kidnap victim has no right to be labeled victim: FARC
Colombia’s largest armed guerrilla group FARC on Tuesday said that Congresswoman Clara...
Man accused of kidnapping Clara Rojas’ child sentenced to 33 years
The man accused of kidnapping the child, which former vice-presidential candidate Clara Rojas had while in the captivity of rebel group FARC, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison. The ruling was made on Wednesday by the...
ELN proposes exchange of Canadian captive for mining rights
Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Wednesday demanded mining rights for the rural poor in exchange for the Canadian mining executive currently being held hostage. The rebels said the captive Jernoc Wobert,...
Famous FARC kidnapping movie will be shown in Colombia
A film about a famous FARC kidnapping will be released in Colombia despite the legal wrangling of the victim to prevent its distribution. Former Colombian congresswoman Clara Rojas was kidnapped by the FARC, Colombia’s...
Former FARC hostage halts release of film portraying her story
A former hostage of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group FARC has prevented the release of a film, centered on her story, in her native Colombia, reported media reports. Colombian news outlet CMI reported that the lawyer and...
Former FARC hostage to lead Colombian anti-kidnapping NGO
Clara Rojas, a former FARC hostage who ran as Ingrid Betancourt’s presidential running mate, was named director of a prominent Colombian anti-kidnapping NGO Thursday. Rojas, one of the guerrilla group’s most...
Alleged kidnapper of hostage’s son acquitted
A Colombian court found Crisanto Gomez, the farmer accused of kidnapping the child of former FARC hostage Clara Rojas, to be not guilty on Tuesday. A judge from the Villavicencio criminal court announced that after three years...
Former FARC hostage calls film about her son an ‘outrage’
Former Colombian vice-presidential candidate and kidnap victim Clara Rojas, has called a new film that tells the story of her son an “outrage.” Rojas spent six years in captivity following her kidnapping by the FARC...
