FARC confirms it is holding kidnapped Colombia general

[Bacchus4.0]

http://news.yahoo.com/farc-confirms-holding-kidnapped-colombia-general-155344140.html

Bogota (AFP) - Colombia's FARC guerrillas confirmed Tuesday that they are holding a missing general whose kidnapping caused the government to suspend peace talks aimed at ending the country's 50-year-old conflict.

The talks, the most promising effort yet to end the longest-running conflict in Latin America, were thrown into crisis Sunday when General Ruben Alzate was kidnapped with Corporal Jorge Rodriguez and army adviser Gloria Urrego as they traveled to visit a civilian energy project in the rural department of Choco.

In a statement posted on FARC's website, the rebel group's Ivan Rios unit claimed the kidnapping.

"Once they were clearly identified, despite wearing civilian clothes, the three were captured by our units, on the grounds that they are enemy military personnel, traveling in their official capacity, in an area of war operations," said the statement, datelined from the Colombian mountains and written on Monday.

[Bacchus4.0]

1. Lonesome chavista statement on capture of general in LBN

I would suspect parties OPPOSED to the imminent peace agreement did this.

It has been well established many of the Colombian military hierarchy opposes a peace agreement with the FARC, which is daily attacked by Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe, George W. Bush ally.

The FARC already put over two years into constant negociations with the representatives of the current Colombian President Santos. They would NOT be the ones to screw it up now that the end has been well in sight for so long.

If the truth is allowed to be revealed it will be that the military/paramilitary (death squads) did it to prevent the end of the very lucrative (U.S. funded) war which has been going on for DECADES.

[Zorro]

2. Oopsie!

I would suspect that our little FARCie is hoping nobody noticed those typically clueless assertions.

[Bacchus4.0]

3. I think she believes the FARC are a humanitarian organization. Also believes that Maduro is a

a good and popular president. They prove her wrong alot.

[Zorro]

4. Yes indeed

Probably thinks the biggest threat to the general is getting hugged to death by the FARC.