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Consuelo González: FARC-held military and police officers have been chained for one year

Former Colombian lawmaker Consuelo González, who was released Thursday together with former vice-presidential candidate Clara Rojas, Friday denounced that the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) have kept chained the police and military officers with whom she was captive in the Colombian jungle for one year now.

González said the officers "lived chained up all the day long, with chains on their necks they had to carry to do any activity," Efe reported.

"At night, the rebels tie the chains to a pole at the footrest," González told Bogota-based Caracol Radio from Caracas.


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IISS: The FARC financed Chávez before 1999

10:07 AM. DIPLOMACY. Admired by the Colombian guerrilla after his coup attempt in 1992, the then lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez Frías received financial support by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for his projects after his capture that year. This mostly explains the relationship and "debt" between the parties, as revealed by a paper of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of the United Kingdom.

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