5 FARC hostages home in January: Cordoba .

[Judi Lynn]

5 FARC hostages home in January: Cordoba .
Saturday, 01 January 2011 14:42 Adriaan Alsema .

The five hostages the FARC promised to release will be home before the end of this month, mediator Piedad Cordoba said Saturday.

"The new year message to those how are about to be surrendered is very positive. We are only working on logistics. They will be home in January already," Cordoba told Caracol TV.

The FARC promised to release the three members of the security forces and two politicians from the south of the country on December 8. The promised release is a "humanitarian gesture" to Cordoba, who was banned from the senate for having ties to the rebel group.

The former senator said that the next step will be a "humanitarian accord" resulting in the release of all hostages held by the guerrillas. This deal involves the exchange of hostages held by guerrillas with guerrillas held in Colombian and American prisons. The Colombian government has always opposed such a deal, demanding the guerrillas release their hostages unilaterally.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13555-5-farc-hostages-at-home-in-january-cordoba.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Somebody unrec'ed this. Weird! Glad to see that Cordoba is still working on PEACE in Colombia's

long civil war--despite the fascists' efforts to shut her up. Peace is the only answer and peace starts with hostage releases and other gestures of good will, which I hope will be reciprocated. This civil war has gone on long enough--fueled, as it has been, in the last decade, with $7 BILLION in U.S. military aid to one side of this internal conflict--the fascist side.

The murder and mayhem that the U.S. has encouraged in Colombia has created a gravy train for U.S. war profiteers as well as opportunities to utilize the murder and mayhem for U.S. corporate/war profiteer purposes--among them, ridding corps like Chiquita and Drummond Coal of their "labor problems" (murders of trade unionists by the Colombian military and by its closely tied rightwing death squads) and possibly for training U.S. assassins and death squads. The U.S. State Department recently "fined" Blackwater for "unauthorized" "trainings" of "foreign persons" IN COLOMBIA "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan." Personally, I don't believe the word "unauthorized." I think the "fine" is a cover up.