‘Iván Mordisco’ Disidentities Free the Nine Officials Kidnapped in Cauca

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Through a video release, the Ombudsman, Iris Marín, confirmed that on Friday morning the nine people who had been kidnapped by the dissidents of the Farc last July 17 were released. “They were handed over to a humanitarian commission of which several institutions, including the United Nations and the national defenders of the Ombudsman’s Office, were part,” said Marín, who added that they will be given a medical evaluation.

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Dissidents from the former FARC guerrilla group have released nine Colombian government contractors they were holding hostage, the office of the human rights ombudsman in the Latin American country announced on Friday, a week after they were kidnapped in a rural area in the southeastern department of Cauca. The hostages – seven women and two men – were accused by the rebels of having gone to supply the army, and were kidnapped on July 17. Howeve…

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Nine contractors from the Government of Cauca, in southwestern Colombia, were released on Friday after eight days of captivity in the hands of a dissidence of the former guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, reported the state Ombudsman's Office.