Govt appoints hostage release mediator
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos appointed Eduardo Pizarro to mediate the promised release of FARC hostages on behalf of the government. Pizarro is currently the head of the National Commission…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos appointed Eduardo Pizarro to mediate the promised release of FARC hostages on behalf of the government. Pizarro is currently the head of the National Commission…
Former Senator Piedad Cordoba says she will begin on Thursday to organise details of the release of five hostages who the FARC has promised to free. In an interview published on…
Colombians for Peace (CCP), an activist group led by former Senator Piedad Cordoba, urges the FARC to release all hostages, reports EFE. Earlier this week the FARC announced in an…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos authorized former Senator Piedad Cordoba to take part in the release of five hostages the FARC has promised to free. In a press release published…
Relatives of hostages that the FARC have announced to free call on the Colombian government to accede to the rebels’ conditions for the release, reports ABC. The guerrilla group said…
Colombia’s largest rebel group the FARC on Wednesday announced plans to release five hostages. In an open letter to former Senator Piedad Cordoba, published on FARC-friendly website Anncol, the rebels’…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy used the captivity of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt for political gain and only managed to raise her value as a hostage for the FARC, then-U.S. Ambassador to…
Kidnappings in Colombia are on the rise following 10 years of steady decline, according to official statistics released Monday. According to a report by Fondelibertad, a defense agency in charge of…
FARC leader “Mono Jojoy” said before his death that the guerrilla group would only release hostage members of the security forces through a prisoner exchange, according to an interview posted on…