FARC release Japanese hostage
Colombia’s FARC rebels Sunday released a Japanese businessman they had kidnapped in March, after police were hot on his trail in the countryside near Cali, Police Chief Miguel Bojaca told…
Colombia’s FARC rebels Sunday released a Japanese businessman they had kidnapped in March, after police were hot on his trail in the countryside near Cali, Police Chief Miguel Bojaca told…
German Vargas Lleras, Colombia’s incoming minister for justice and the interior, says the FARC guerrilla group must free all hostages as a pre-condition for talks with the government. “If the…
“Alfonso Cano,” supreme FARC commander, reappeared last week in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera. The video is significant for a number of reasons. First, it comes in the wake of…
After he was captured by leftist rebels, Luis Mendieta’s status in Colombia’s police force suddenly became his curse. The rebels’ military chief told the lieutenant colonel — his highest-ranking hostage…
Guerrillas kidnapped four women working with displaced people in the north-east Colombian Norte de Santander department on Tuesday, the governor told press. Two of the victims work for human rights…
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt’s lawyer on Saturday dialed back demands for nearly seven million dollars from the Colombian government for her years in FARC captivity after uproar over the request.…
An army commando who took part in the June 13 military rescue of four FARC hostages reveals that the mission was called “Operation Chameleon” because the army posed as guerrillas…
Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said the government has little confidence in FARC statements about further hostage releases, which he sees as giving false hope to the families of the victims, reports…
The director of Colombian NGO Fundacion Pais Libre called on the European Union to continue supporting efforts to free hundreds of kidnapping victims still being held in Colombia, reports W…