Uribe criticizes France over Betancourt
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe criticized France for losing interest in Colombia after FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt was rescued, in an unprecedented three hour live broadcast on W Radio Friday. Uribe…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe criticized France for losing interest in Colombia after FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt was rescued, in an unprecedented three hour live broadcast on W Radio Friday. Uribe…
Former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt Thursday denounced a humanitarian exchange or prisoner swap with the FARC as a “fantasy” and claimed that a military rescue would be a more probable…
Colombian opposition senator and hostage mediator Piedad Cordoba asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 to allow the FARC to open an office in Paris, said the former director of…
Former Colombian presidential candidate and FARC hostage victim, Ingrid Betancourt announced that her guerrilla captivity was harsher because she is a woman. Betancourt, who was rescued in 2008 after six…
Former Franco-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt called on the FARC guerrilla group to free all the prisoners it is holding in the jungles of Colombia. “I want to talk to the…
Colombia’s most famous former hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, will receive a medal in the Canadian province of Quebec Wednesday. According to Canadian television network CTV, the Medal of the National Assembly…
Colombia has extradited a captured leftist rebel who unwittingly helped officials rescue 15 hostages — including Ingrid Betancourt and three American military contractors. Nancy Conde Rubio was bundled aboard a…
Aprosecutor for the National Unity Against Kidnapping and Extortion said that Heli ‘Martin Sombra’ Mejia Mendoza, would be charged with the crimes of conspiracy and aggravated kidnapping for ransom. U.S.…