Rojas, 44, an urbane lawyer who was kidnapped in 2002 together with Ingrid Betancourt, a presidential candidate and longtime friend, while driving into FARC territory. The details about Emmanuel have also focused attention on Ms. President Álvaro Uribe has asked Vice President Francisco Santos - who was himself abducted by drug lords in 1990 in an episode later described in Gabriel García Márquez’s “News of a Kidnapping” - to lead an international campaign to pressure the FARC to release Emmanuel. “I could hear her asking to see her son.”Ĭlara Rojas seen in a video released by the rebels in 2003. “Clara suffered so much,” said Jhon Frank Pinchao, the policeman who fled from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the country’s largest rebel group, after eight years in captivity, in an emotional news conference here in mid-May. But revelations in recent weeks, including his name, obtained from an emaciated police officer who spent 17 days in the wilderness after escaping from a guerrilla encampment in southern Colombia, have shaken a country hardened by a seemingly interminable war in which kidnapping has been polished into an effective weapon. Rojas in captivity for the last five years.Įmmanuel’s existence was first reported to an unsettled public last year.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, May 30 - His name is Emmanuel.ĭetails about his entrance into this world are sparse, but this much about him has been gleaned: he is 3 years old and lives in the jungle his mother is Clara Rojas, a former aspirant to the vice presidency of this country and his father is one of the guerrillas who have held Ms.
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