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LatinNews Daily - 29 April 2016

Colombia: Hostage scandal jeopardises ELN peace talks

Development: On 28 April the former governor of Colombia’s north-westernmost department of Chocó, Patrocinio Sánchez Montes de Oca (2008-2010), confirmed that the insurgent Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), the country’s second largest leftist guerrilla group, had not unconditionally released him earlier this month after three years in captivity but only in exchange for his brother Odín, a former deputy in the lower chamber of the national congress.

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