Colombia - FARC Peace Talks Suspended After General Is Kidnapped

Colombian President Halts Farc Talks After General Kidnapped -- The Guardian

Efforts to end 50 years of war in crisis after Ruben Dario Alzate captured along with military official and lawyer.

The Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, has suspended peace talks with Marxist Farc rebels following the kidnapping of an army general, throwing into crisis the nation’s efforts to end 50 years of war.

General Ruben Dario Alzate, who heads the Titan task force in the Pacific department of Choco, was captured on Sunday afternoon by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), along with another military official and a civilian.

“Tomorrow negotiators were to travel to another round of talks in Havana,” Santos said early on Monday. “I will tell them not to go and that the talks are suspended until these people are released.”

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