COLOMBIA: MANAGER OF A KOREAN AUTOMOBILE PLANT RELEASED BY COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS AFTER BEING HELD CAPTIVE FOR TWO WEEKS

Record ID: 588527

  • Title: COLOMBIA: MANAGER OF A KOREAN AUTOMOBILE PLANT RELEASED BY COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS AFTER BEING HELD CAPTIVE FOR TWO WEEKS
  • Date: 5th December 2000
  • Summary: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (DECEMBER 05, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MID-VIEW OF COLOMBIAN HYUNDAI GENERAL MANAGER, LAZARO MONTES' WIFE [NOT IDENTIFIED], RELATIVE AND MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES WALKING TO MEET MONTES 0.09 2. SLV OF HELICOPTER LANDING 0.26 3. SV/WIDE VIEW: RELATIVES WAITING (2 SHOTS) 0.38 4. MV: MONTES EMERGING FROM HELICOPTER AND GREETING RELATIVES AND MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES 0.52 5. VARIOUS OF MONTES' RELATIVES HUGGING MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES 1.05 6. SCU: [SOUNDBITE] (SPANISH) MONTES, SAYING: "My liberation took place thanks to the Gaula (elite anti-kidnapping unit) who pressured them and pressured them. The goods were running out, the last three days we ate only canned goods. This morning...for two days we ate tuna fish and saltine crackers, and this morning they told me there was only one box of tuna and saltine crackers left, but I did not feel like having tuna and crackers for breakfast again but finally I ate it because they told me to eat it because we would most likely have to go on a long walk." 2.00 7. SV: MONTES AND RELATIVES WALKING SURROUNDED BY MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES AND ANTI-KIDNAPPING UNIT 2.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Reuters ID: LVAEB96837OLQTCOXL1CF7CLB92U
  • Story Text: Colombian guerrillas have released the manager of a
    Korean automobile plant, after holding him for in captivity
    for over two weeks.



    Colombian gunmen released Lazaro Montes, a manager for
    Korean automobile maker Hyundai, unharmed on Tuesday
    (December 5) after holding him in captivity for over two weeks
    in an undisclosed rural location.

    Upon his release, Montes was taken to Bogota in an Air
    Force helicopter, where his wife and relatives awaited him.

    Montes said the aggressive pursuit of the kidnappers by
    Colombia's elite anti-kidnapping forces the kidnappers to
    remain on the move, to the point where they were running short
    of edibles supplies.

    He said his liberation took place thanks to the pressure
    placed on the kidnappers by the Gaula - Colombia's elite
    anti-kidnapping unit. Montes said he was forced to eat tuna
    fish and crackers for breakfast because they were running out
    of supplies.

    Nearly 3,000 abductions occurred last year alone in
    Colombia, which authorities often describe as the kidnap
    capital of the world.

    Most of the abductions were blamed on the country's two
    leading Marxist rebel groups, which use ransom money to help
    finance an uprising against the state that has taken 35,000
    lives since 1990.



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