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Ingrid Betancourt, a champion for reform and corruption
clean-up in the Colombian government, was kidnapped while running for
presidential office in that country. The Colombian government is using weapons,
supplied by the U.S., to fight this war instead of working for a peaceful
resolution. Please try to do what you can to help.
Call, write, or email your elected representatives; sign the petition on the
website below.
www.Betancourt.info
Free Ingrid
Betancourt
News
Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes' documentary,
Missing Peace,
about the kidnapping of Colombian Presidential Candidate Ingrid Bentacourt,
won the
Feature Audience Award at Slamdance.
At Last--Hope!
The newspaper El Tiempo announces that before 2003, there will be a
dialogue between the Colombian government and FARCs to discuss the release of
sequestered people; Luis Carlos Restrepo, commissionner of PEACE, which will
meet the envoys of FARC. The meeting should occur outside Colombian territory --
probably Venezuela -- and France will stand as guarantor of the safety of the
emissary.
This announcement comes a little less than one week after Melanie Delloye,
Ingrid's daughter, intervened at the Palais-Bourbon to ask France "to apply
itself more" towards her mother's release. Melanie asked that the Colombian
Government designate as quickly as possible "a credible negotiator" for
negotiations with FARC. She and the support committees gave a copy of a petition
with 50,000 signatures to the French government and to the embassy of Colombia
For more details and the photographs see the
Green
party's Free Ingrid Betancourt page.
U.S. Funds
Colombian Military Despite Its Human Rights Failures
"To claim that Colombia has met human rights conditions makes a mockery of the
law," said Eric Olson, AIUSA's Advocacy Director for the Americas, responding to
U.S. plans to provide military assistance to the country.
Farc
video shows Betancourt alive (7.25.02)
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