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May 26th, 2007
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Topic: Release Of Guerrillas Planned
May 26, 2007 BOGOTÁ, Colombia, May 25 (Agence France-Presse) — President Uribe announced Friday that his government planned to release a large group of imprisoned leftist guerrillas by June 7. Mr. Uribe has been under pressure to free imprisoned guerrillas who belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as F.A.R.C., in exchange for 56 hostages held by the rebels, including three Americans and a French-Colombian politician, Ingrid Betancourt. “By June 7, I will have to have freed some or all of the F.A.R.C.,” Mr. Uribe said in an interview broadcast on Radio Caracol. “If it is not possible, I will transfer them to another place instead of a prison.” |
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