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France Bails
on Hostage
Rescue Mission

Colombian rebels
block medical help
for Betancourt

BBC BBC Apr 9, 08 5:35 CDT
(Newser) - A French humanitarian team is leaving Colombia after being frustrated in its mission to aid failing hostage Ingrid Betancourt, reports the BBC. The leadership of the FARC rebels, who have held the French-Colombian presidential candidate hostage for six years, refused to allow the team to provide Betancourt with emergency medical aid. French President Nicolas Sarkozy had sent the aid workers after reports that Betancourt was seriously ill. More »

More about:  France • Nicolas Sarkozy • Colombia • FARC • Ingrid Betancourt • Bernard Kouchner • Colombian rebels • Clara Rojas

Colombian Hostage Reunited
With Son

Rojas meets child rebels took from her

BBC BBC Jan 14, 08 4:50 CST
(Newser) - A Colombian woman held captive for nearly six years by rebels was reunited yesterday with the son she had as a hostage. Clara Rojas' baby, Emmanuel, fathered by one of the rebels, was taken from her when he was just eight months old, suffering from a broken arm and a parasitic disease. Now 3, he has  been living in a foster home for the last two years. More »

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Colombian Hostages
Joyfully Return to Families

Chavez receives pair at presidential palace

CNN CNN Jan 10, 08 9:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Two freed hostages are back with their families tonight after years of captivity in the Colombian jungle, CNN reports. "We are being reborn!" said Clara Rojas as she was reunited with her elderly mother in Venezuela. "This is like living again," said her fellow former hostage, Consuelo Gonzalez. "Sometimes I think it's a dream." More »

2 Colombian Hostages Freed

Red Cross helicopters carrying pair to Caracas

CNN CNN Jan 10, 08 11:21 CST
(Newser) - Colombian rebels have released two women hostages, Hugo Chavez said in a press conference today, as Red Cross helicopters were flying the freed Colombians to Caracas. The women, both held in the jungle for years, are Consuelo Gonzalez, a politician, and Clara Rojas, an aide to former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. Betancourt  remains one of 700 captives still held by FARC, a group of the Marxist insurgents. More »

More about:  Hugo Chávez • hostage • FARC • Ingrid Betancourt • Clara Rojas • Bogota • Emmanuel Rojas • Consuelo Gonzalez

Colombia Prez: Rebels Don't Have Hostage's Love Child

DNA to determine if boy is orphan in custody

AFP AFP Jan 2, 08 10:29 CST
(Newser) - Relatives of FARC hostage Clara Rojas yesterday underwent DNA testing to determine whether a boy surrendered to a Bogota orphanage 2 years ago is her 3-year-old son, as Colombian president Alvaro Uribe contends. Uribe yesterday said FARC rebels couldn't release Emmanuel Rojas, along with his mother and another hostage, as they had promised to do, because he’s not their captive at all, the AFP reports. More »

Venezuela
To Pick Up Hostages
in Colombia

Guerrillas will release under Chavez plan

Reuters Reuters Dec 26, 07 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 2002; the young son she had in captivity; and a former lawmaker. More »

More about:  kidnapping • Colombia • Venezuela • Hugo Chávez • hostage • FARC • Clara Rojas

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