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CARACAS, Friday January 11, 2008 | Update
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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