Rev. José E. Holes

Thanks to my God since today the peace and the calmness comes for the family of deputy Sigifredo López, the surviving only one of 12 deputies kidnapped on April 11, 2002. It is clear that we are glad all the Colombian families for this fully deserved liberation. But also this event invites us to the reflection, to wonder and to question on the events that took our relatives to the sequestration, for 5 years, and then to the vile murder. Today more that we never remember with sadness the operative fictional and happened cinematographic one again this day in the head office of the Assembly of the Vale of the Cauca. In this blow developed by a guerrilla command disguised as military men, there were pirated in collective form the assemblymen Juan Carlos Narváez, Alberto Quintero, Edison Pérez, Héctor Arizmendi, Javier Giraldo, Ramiro Echeverry, Rufino Varela, Carlos Charry, Carlos Barragán, Sigifredo López, Nacianceno Orozco and my older brother, Jairo Javier Hoyos Salcedo. Today it is a time to join us in prayer for the souls of these martyrs and Colombian heroes. It is a time to ask the guerrillas, the government and the public in general: What have we gained with the sequestration? Has it been advanced in obtaining the peace? With the sequestration and the terrorist offenses: are there less poor? Is the inequality between rich and poor minor? Since till now, I am excused by gentlemen (expert) of the armed conflict, we have not gained absolutely anything. The rich ones keep on being rich, the poorer and poorer poor, there is no respect to the human dignity, and with the first sequestration and the first offense the struggle for a revolutionary ideal lost the course and the north.