Families ask FARC to release hostages
The families of two policemen who were taken captive 12 years ago on Monday, asked the guerrillas to release their loved ones. The two cops, sergeant Cesar Augusto Lasso Monsalve…
The families of two policemen who were taken captive 12 years ago on Monday, asked the guerrillas to release their loved ones. The two cops, sergeant Cesar Augusto Lasso Monsalve…
Ingrid Betancourt’s abduction by the FARC is to form the basis of two new Hollywood films, reports Hollywood Reporter. One will be based on Betancourt’s own account of her six…
The documentary “Ingrid Betancourt: Six Years in the Jungle” will premiere on the Discovery Channel next Sunday. The filmmakers say October 10 will be the first time Betancourt will be…
Gustavo Moncayo, the activist father of former FARC hostage Pablo Emilio Moncayo, on Tuesday said there had been an attempts to kidnap him. In the 12 years his son spent…
The death in combat of FARC commander “Mono Jojoy” is the latest in a series of military successes against the guerrilla organization. The following is a timeline of the biggest…
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she feels “very hurt” by Colombia, because of her 2002-2008 captivity by FARC rebels and clashes with the government after her release. “I am very…
Not a single Colombian is interested in buying a book by former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, according to a poll released on Tuesday. According to pollster Gallup, all of the 1,200…
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…
A total of 146 Colombians and three foreigners were kidnapped in the country in the first half of this year, the government’s anti-kidnapping agency said Wednesday. According to statistics revealed…