Picking up where they left off
The release of a kidnapped general allows peace talks to resume
IT WAS a kidnapping that ended peace talks between Colombia’s government and the FARC, a leftist army, in 2002. Guerrillas hijacked a commercial flight, forced it to land on a remote road, and took captive Jorge Eduardo Géchem, a senator. The then president, Andrés Pastrana, declared the three-year-old peace process over. Mr Géchem spent six years as a hostage.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Picking up where they left off”
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