Colombia: Hostage Rescue & What Lies Ahead

http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/americas/index.html

On July 2, Colombian military intelligence and Special Forces liberated 3 U.S. hostages, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, and 11 Colombian police and soldiers who had been held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for as many as 11 years. The Americas Project at the Center for American Progress hosted Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos for a discussion of the hostage rescue mission and other recent severe blows against the FARC and their implications for efforts to bring Colombia's long history of illegal armed conflict to a close.

Introduction by:

Dan Restrepo, Director, The Americas Project, at the Center for American Progress

Distinguished Speaker:

Juan Manuel Santos, Minister of National Defense of Colombia

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• america
• american
• betancourt
• bogota
• colombia
• farc
• hostage
• latin
• progress
• rescue

[givebirthathome]

@moralem12 Thankyou for taking the time to make the suggestion.

[moralem12]

@givebirthathome Hey if you want to know more about the problems in Colombia I hightly recoment you the book out of captivity. Please read it and make your own conclusion. We are trying to stray out our country but some many shit is coming from everywhere, but now we already release of this terrorist and the country is going iin the right way, We still a third world country but we are in the right now that we choice the right leaders.

[nickmcmoon]

FAKE

[givebirthathome]

I'd like to see this with more context, not only as to a brief pictorial overview of what the extent and roots of the violence problem in Colombia have been, but what its relevance to larger issues in the world is now.