FARC Offers to Free Six
Colombia's FARC guerrillas have offered to free a former governor, a former lawmaker and four other hostages to help jump-start talks on a prisoner swap, local news media reported Sunday.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said in a statement that three unidentified police officers and a soldier would be freed first "as an irrefutable demonstration of our good will and as a gesture aimed at creating conditions favorable to a humanitarian exchange."
They would be followed by Alan Jara, the former governor of southern Meta state, who was kidnapped in July 2001; and Valle del Cauca regional lawmaker Sigifredo Lopez, held since April 2002.
The FARC did not give a date for the releases, Radio Caracol reported. The guerrillas released six politicians in January and February. In July, a military operation freed 15 high-profile hostages, including three U.S. contractors and former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.
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