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…
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…
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…
In her book “Even silence has an end,” French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt claims that her former running mate Clara Rojas planned the pregnancy of her child while being held in…
“Operation Checkmate,” a television mini-series based on the kidnapping and rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, will air from July 20 to July 23 on Colombia’s Caracol channel. Betancourt was kidnapped by…
Five former hostages, now seeking seats in Congress, call for humanitarian exchange, the abolition of kidnapping and a solution to Colombia’s armed conflict. The five candidates, all former hostages of…