| After years of captivity in hands of the guerrillas |
Five hostages of the FARC begin enjoying the freedom |
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| One day after his liberation, Alan Jara (right), ex-governor of the department of Goal, smiles next to the president Alvaro Uribe in Villavicencio, Colombia. |
Camilo Hernández
La Paz / AP
Alan Jara, ex-governor of the Colombian department of Goal, of 51 years, savors from Tuesday, the 4th the freedom after seven years and a half of captivity in hands of the FARC.
Another four hostages were liberated on Sunday, the 1st and they are the police officer Walter José Lozano Guarnizo, the police patrol crafts Alexis Torres Zapata and Juan Fernando Galicia and the soldier of the army William Domínguez.
For the weekend one was waiting for the liberation of Sigifredo López, an ex-deputy of the legislative assembly of the department of Vale of the Cauca,
kidnapped in April, 2002.
Rockrose was liberated by the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed forces of Colombia (FARC) to a humanitarian mission in a region of the Guaviare, to the south of the country.
After his liberation, in a press conference in Villavicencio, in department of Goal where it resides, Rockrose seemed in a cheerful mood, did pleasantries and formulated criticism both to the government and to the guerrillas for his apparent intransigence in obtaining an agreement to liberate hostages and rebels in prison in a "swap or humanitarian agreement".
The president Alvaro Uribe moved to Villavicencio and met on Wednesday for more than one hour Rockrose in the residence of the ex-hostage, who was a Goal governor from 2000 up to his sequestration in July, 2001.
To the exit, Uribe declared reporters that "many people that have gone out of there (of the forest) have criticized me very much and I have been completely respectful" of his positions.
"Do you believe that, after perceiving the suffering of Greengage (they Roar, handcuff of Rockrose)... of his kid (Alan Felipe) and to see this situation of the kidnapped ones, the President of Colombia can put himself in a discussion of those with ex-hostages?", added Uribe, in declarations spread by the house of government in his Internet place.
Rockrose, on having spoken with the radio Snail, repeated that the swap "is the only way" for the freedom of at least a score of military men and police officers who continue in hands of the FARC, some for 11 years.
It taught English
Rockrose added that he still does not decide if a book will write on his experience or return to the politics and he emphasized that he does not consider like lost the years of sequestration.
" I do not consider to have lost this time because I was making something useful, because I was sharing some knowledge and was learning, also, many things", he affirmed Rockrose remembering that per years he taught of English his captivity partners.
" So that I take these seven years and seven months like a very hard process with the highest cost for me, for my son, for my family, for my friends... but I it do not consider a lost time", he made sure.
Now "I want to dedicate my efforts to the humanitarian agreement... there will be already time further on, not in days and months, but suddenly in years, of counting this history".
Chained
The ex-governor narrated that two of his partners of sequestration were taking two years with chains tied to the neck all the time, but it did not identify them. Also it pointed out that "nobody can be well" of health in the conditions of captivity in which they live. The hostages "are rotting in the forest", it denounced.
El Salvador
The last survey
The most recent opinion poll spread in the country determined that the candidate of the FMLN, Mauricio Funes, continues at the head of the preferences for the presidential election, with 32,5 per cent followed by Rodrigo Avila, by Sand, with 26,5 %. The study does not allow to establish with certainty if the election will solve in only one electoral round because 28,2 per cent of the interrogated persons do not know or do not mean for whom he will vote. The presidential election will be realized next Sunday, the 15th of March.
Bolivia
They produce Evo nose
Cuban doctors operated and corrected the deviation of the nasal dividing wall that there was suffering the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales. The surgery was satisfactory and the patient recovers satisfactorily, said a spokesman. Mulberry trees he could not breathe with normality since his nose suffered a deviation because of a blow that received on having played soccer, he added.
Peru
"Buy to him Peru"
The president Alan García threw on Wednesday, the 4th a national campaign to promote the consumption of products made of the country, like a way of mitigating the impact of the effects of the international economic crisis. The called one did it to the Peruvians of all the social classes, and especially to the young people, so that they turn into "fashion" this year to buy and to consume national products.
Guatemala
Killer police officers
The government of Guatemala will construct approximately 170 cells high safety in two prisons of the country to isolate the most dangerous prisoners, announced on Tuesday, the 3rd the minister of government, Salvador Gándara. In the last days there were seized tens TV sets, cell phones, weapon, devices of music and other goods in at least five prisons of the country.
Argentina
For lack of coins …
The government of the president Cristina Fernández implemented on Wednesday, the 4th the system of electronic ticket for all the public transport in the metropolitan area before the repeated complaints of the users for lack of coins. The new system, which will demand an investment for 57 million dollars, will begin to work in 90 days.
Mexico
They kill general
Three corpses, between them that of a retired brigadier general, were found on Tuesday, the 3rd in a sports van in a highway in the Cancún outskirts, there revealed the mayor of the coastal city, Gregorio Sánchez. The victims are general Mauro Enrique Tello, who recently had moved back from the Mexican army, his assistant Tulio César Román, a lieutenant of infantry in assets, and civil Juan Ramírez.
Paraguay
Uncontrollable fastidiousness
The sanitary authorities of Paraguay cannot control the expansion of the epidemic of low intensity of the fastidiousness on having confirmed to him on Wednesday another 105 patients. The evil is transmitted by the mosquito aedes agypty, indicated Julius Caesar Manzur, the director of the department of Public Health.
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