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Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior
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Dos noticias y media rapidas de Colombia y sus alrededores:
1. Parece que un huracan va por la parte sur del Atlantico, un tal Jose.
Ya hay un comite de emergencia preparado en Venezuela. Sera que afectara a
Colombia? No se! no he mirado el canal del tiempo el dia de hoy.
Ojala que no! Nosotros no estamos preparados para esa clase de eventos.
2. Ahora pasando al Pacifico. Miren las bellezas de los "amigos" farcanianos.
En estos momentos hasta quieren acabar con el poco turismo que nos queda en
el pais. Despues se preguntan algunos por que es que la gente quiere tan
poquito a estos guambiticos.
3. Ahora dizque comienzan los dialogos el 24. Vamos a ver que pasa de aqui al
Domingo. No se les haga raro si de repente se postergan las negociaciones
como nos tienen ya aconstumbrados. Pronosticando las noticias del 25-->
"Postergado el inicio de las conversaciones hasta el 17 de Enero del 2000.
Amanecera y veremos!"
Chao mijiticas,
Nestor Raul
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Subject: (fwd) Colombian police thwart bid to abduct 14 tourists
BOGOTA, Oct 17 (AFP) - Colombian police thwarted leftist rebels'
attempt to abduct 14 tourists from a boat off the country's Pacific
coast -- the second kidnapping attack on a boat over the weekend,
officials said.
But officials said the rebels killed a crew member of another
boat before the kidnap attempt on Saturday.
"Police conducted a lightning raid and rescued the tourists,"
all of whom were Colombian, police Colonel Jesus Gomez told the
private Radionet station Sunday, a day after the guerrillas' daring
effort near the northwestern town of Capugarna.
In a separate but similar Saturday incident, 13 Colombian
tourists were taken hostage from their boat off the Pacific coast,
presumably by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC), the nation's oldest and largest rebel group.
Police had initially said that 14 tourists were kidnapped in
that attack but later revised that figure downward after speaking to
the women and children the guerrillas left behind after taking over
the craft.
Gomez said that FARC rebels intercepted four small boats off
Capugarna and "briefly detained" the tourists, who were headed for
the locale -- 700 kilometers ( 427 miles) northwest of here -- for a
popular festival.
Before hijacking the tourists' boat, the rebels stole supplies
from another craft and killed one of its crew, said Gomez.
Meanwhile, a massive air, sea and land search for the other 13
hostages had failed to turn up where they were taken, said police
Colonel Helmer Wilches.
"We have not been able to locate the tourists, despite police,
navy and army efforts at sea and on the coast," he told reporters.
Investigators have not yet confirmed a charge by the Navy
Admiral Jaime Jaramillo that the hostages were taken by rebels of
the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the
nation's oldest and largest insurgent group.
Jaramillo said Saturday that the rebels probably abducted the
tourists, all Colombians, in reprisal after the Asturias company
that owns the boat refused to pay "protection" money.
But he also said that the kidnappers could be members of
organized gangs of criminals who for some 10,000 dollars often turn
over captives to the FARC, which then demands up to two million
dollars in ransom.
More than 120,000 people have been killed since 1964 in Latin
America's longest-running civil war. Some 3,000 people are kidnapped
each year, either by leftist rebels or rightist paramilitary
organizations, as the groups seek to raise funds for their
activities.
The FARC and Colombian President Andres Pastrana's government
are set to open peace talks October 24.
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