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Venezuela To Pick Up Hostages in Colombia

Guerrillas will release under Chavez plan

By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 26, 2007 5:48 PM CST

(Newser) – Three hostages held for more than five years by Marxist guerrillas will soon go free after Colombia agreed today to a handover plan engineered by Hugo Chavez, Reuters reports. Venezuelan planes and helicopters will pick up Clara Rojas, a former vice presidential candidate kidnapped in... Read full story »

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