Disco_Destroyer
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 Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: Oliver Stone joins Columbian hostage rescue team |
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/30/stone.colombia/index.html
| Quote: | The American filmmaker is jumping at a chance to meet with a group the United States classifies as a terrorist organization.
Leaving the glamour of Hollywood far behind, Stone arrived in the steamy Colombian city of Villavicencio on Saturday as part of a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to retrieve three hostages held for years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
"I have no illusions about the FARC, but it looks like they are a peasant army fighting for a decent living," Stone said in an interview with The Associated Press at his hotel bar. "And here, if you fight, you fight to win."
Stone is part of an international delegation expected to fly by helicopter as early as Sunday into the country's eastern jungles, an area the size of France, to collect the captives: former congresswoman Consuelo Gonzalez, Clara Rojas and her young son Emmanuel, who was fathered by one of her guerrilla captors.
When asked if he's concerned the heavily armed guerrillas could turn on him, he joked: "Well, if they took us, they would be swapping three hostages for 10," referring to himself and observers from five Latin America countries, France and Switzerland, along to supervise the release. "If I were them, that would make sense.
"But seriously, no, I'm not worried. The FARC knows there would be universal condemnation if they did that," said Stone, whose arrival has ramped up the media circus that surrounds the pending handover.
More than 150 journalists have camped out in Villavicencio's airport since Thursday, waiting for the rescue operation to begin. Watch how Stone is part of media circus »
The mission seemed unlikely to be completed Sunday as originally promised by Venezuela, as rescuers were still awaiting word from the rebels on the exact location of the release. Meanwhile a rocket narrowly missed an air force cargo plane as it was landing in southern Colombia, underscoring the difficulties involved in crossing live battle lines. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:23 am Post subject: Freed Colombian hostages thank Chavez |
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Freed Colombian hostages thank Venezuela after arrival
www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-11
SANTO DOMINGO, Venezuela, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The two choppers that transferred two hostages released by Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) earlier on Thursday arrived in the Venezuelan state of Tachira.
Colombians Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez arrived at Santo Domingo airport on 3:11 p.m. local time. Thereafter the hostages are expected to be transferred to Caracas.
They thanked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for his collaboration to accomplish their freedom.
Rojas and Gonzalez were freed by the FARC somewhere in the Colombian jungle, in the Guaviare department.
Venezuelan Interior Minister Ramon Rodriguez loaned Rojas a cell phone and she thanked Chavez for his negotiations to accomplish her liberation.
Gonzalez, meanwhile, told Chavez "to continue fighting" until the liberation of the rest of the FARC hostages is accomplished.
The women left the helicopter and headed towards Falcon aircraft that will fly them to the Caracas International Airport, where close relatives are waiting to greet them.
Venezuelan Rodriguez said the handover occurred at 11:20 Venezuelan time (15:50 GMT) and the former hostages are in "good conditions."
Rodriguez traveled in Venezuelan helicopters to pick up the hostages together with Cuban ambassador in Venezuela, German Sanchez, Colombia's former dialogues negotiator Piedad Cordoba and International Red Cross representatives to the Colombian jungle.
"Our interior minister has just told me we are receiving Clara and Consuelo from a FARC command, I greeted the head of the FARC's patrol," Chavez said.
Rojas, 44, was kidnapped in 2002 and Gonzalez, 57, in 2001 and their release was being awaited since days at the end of last year.
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