CHILE: Bachelet to Help Seek Humanitarian Solution for Colombia's Hostage Crisis
                   
ipsnews.net     08-May-2008            

SANTIAGO, Mar 19 (IPS) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet promised to work "quickly" and "efficiently" to obtain the release of the hostages held by the FARC, according to Juan Carlos Lecompte, the husband of former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was taken hostage by... [read full story]                    


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