A high profile kidnapping threatens Colombia’s peace process
Source: Miami Herald
BOGOTA Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos warned the country’s largest guerrilla group that the future of two-year-old peace talks depends on their willingness to free a general and two others who were kidnapped over the weekend.
In a national address late Monday, Santos said he would not allow negotiations to continue until the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) release the three hostages.
“The FARC are responsible for their physical well-being and should return them immediately,” he said. “This is the moment for them to show that they’re committed to the [peace] process in Havana.”
The impasse comes after Brig. Gen. Rubén Dario Alzate, 1st Cpl. Jorge Rodríguez and Gloria Urrego, a lawyer, were detained at gunpoint Sunday in the remote settlement of Las Mercedes, in the northwestern department of Chocó.
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