FARC hostage release mission takes-off
Mediator Piedad Cordoba, members of her Colombians for Peace group and Red Cross employees have left the airport of Villavicencio to pick up the first of five FARC hostagesĀ Cordoboa tweeted…
Mediator Piedad Cordoba, members of her Colombians for Peace group and Red Cross employees have left the airport of Villavicencio to pick up the first of five FARC hostagesĀ Cordoboa tweeted…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday that the FARC will have to carry out “convincing actions” before the government agrees to peace talks with the rebel group. In a…
While the upcoming release of five FARC political hostages has been widely publicized, the more than 200 civilian victims of kidnapping in 2010 have been “forgotten,” says Pais Libre, a…
Mediator Piedad Cordoba said Sunday she is confident Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC will release all their hostages by the second half of this year. The former senator made the…
Mediator Piedad Cordoba will not travel to Brazil until Monday to pick up the Brazilian helicopters and personnel involved in the planned release of five FARC hostages. “Friends, we are…
The Red Cross announced Monday that the planned release of five FARC hostages will take place on the following Monday, February 7. Hours after a press conference in which Cordoba…
Colombian rebel group the FARC will release five hostages between Thursday and Sunday, former Senator Piedad Cordoba, who is mediating the planned hand-over, said Sunday. The senator said on Twitter…
Representatives of Colombia’s armed forces and the Red Cross met on Friday morning to sign the security protocols required to move forward with operations to secure the release of five…
Colombia is waiting for the Red Cross and mediator Piedad Cordoba to give the green light before it signs the necessary security protocol for the FARC hostage release operation, a…