Security & Strategic Review December 2007 (ISSN 1741-4202)

COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA | Farc hostage release foiled. An internationally monitored release of three Farc captives (former vice-presidential candidate Clara Rojas, her son Emmanuel, and former congresswoman Consuelo González de Perdomo) in Villavicencio, Colombia, was called off on 31 December. Two conflicting reasons were invoked: the Farc said that intense military activity had impeded the delivery, while President Álvaro Uribe said the Farc had not delivered because it did not have Emmanuel in its hands. Uribe said there was information that Emmanuel had been delivered in 2005 to the family welfare institute in Bogotá, and the Farc had failed to recover him. Uribe had earlier offered to establish a demilitarised 'corridor' for the delivery of the captives. The truth should be determined through DNA testing of the child in Bogotá.

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