Santos Urges Colombia Jungle Rebels to Stop Taking Hostages
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos urged the nation’s biggest guerrilla group to keep a pledge to stop kidnapping after rebels yesterday released military and police prisoners held for more than a decade.
Santos visited a police hospital in Bogota, where the 10 men arrived last night after being liberated yesterday in eastern Colombia by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The men, some held for 14 years, were the last police and soldiers held by the group, according to the Red Cross.