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By Brian Wagner
Miami
27 February 2008


Colombian rebels have handed over four politicians held hostage for more than six years to a Venezuelan-led recovery team.  VOA's Brian Wagner reports from Miami the four were taken to Venezuela to be reunited with their families.


Helicopters carrying Venezuelan officials and Red Cross workers picked up the four hostages in a jungle clearing in southern Colombia.  Officials said the four were former lawmakers Gloria Polanco, Orlando Beltran, Luis Eladio Perez and Jorge Gechem.


The director of Red Cross in Colombia, Barbara Hinterman, said the four appeared to be in good health for the flight to Caracas.


Hinterman said it was a very important day for Colombia and for the families of the freed hostages.


Venezuela's government and Red Cross workers led a similar effort last month to recover two other politicians freed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a self-declared marxist group known as FARC.
 
Adam Isacson is an expert on Colombia at the Center for International Policy in Washington.  He says FARC leaders are pursuing the hostage releases in an effort to pressure Colombia's government to free jailed rebels.


"They have been holding 44 people, with that demand, cruelly in the jungle for a long time," he said.  "Of those 44, 11 of them are civilians 1."


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez played a key role last year in pressuring the rebels to begin releasing hostages as part of an effort to end the decades-long conflict in Colombia.  He has called for the United States and others to remove the FARC from lists of terrorist organizations.


Isacson says the Venezuelan leader's efforts have backfired, especially in Colombia.  He says support is soaring for Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, who has taken a hard line on the rebels.


"It has caused people to rally around the [Colombian] president and rally around the government, because all of a sudden there is a possible external enemy like there has never been before," he noted 2.


Earlier this month, tens of thousands of Colombians marched to protest the rebels and their use of violence and kidnapping in the country.




平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
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actionary
adenotonsillar
aging machine
amplitude wave
anti-access area denial
benedettis
beta radiation thickness gauge
bharuch (bhrigukaccha)
bimodal
Biwong
book a berth
bottle collar
bottom prop
bundesbank
by extension
cam inverter
Camellia rotundata
caustic steaming cargo tanks
charity case
cherish an intention of
chronic constipation
Citroncirus
Classical Prescriptions School
clitopilus prunulus
coalifying
constant hybrid
control of horizontal synchronizing
debounced
dechlorgriseofulvin
demand sterling
demonstrative pronoun
destockings
dibamids
dibenzopyrone
display by default
Egobi
elaioplankton
eptapirone
figalas
forced-circulation straight-tube steam generator
forestudy
frickles
frown-line
gaseous discharge tube
general council
genus Regulus
girlchild
gougee
grippotoxin
hewable
Hop Chau
jack-a-lanterns
kasimov
kerkut
lagwort
Leyton
luminosity distances
luxuriate in sth
magnetoelastic tensiometer
meltability
metal dust signal
middlemarches
misadvisement
mix up in
multilayer diode
Nonnutritive sweeteners
number of trips
olefine polymer oil
opposite group
Otjozondu
overflow orifice
Pissila
portable night vision tester
potential capacity
precharge pulse
prodelphic
pure merino
RCS (reactor coolant system)
recognition vocabulary
reserve for unexpired premium
reslush
rolling with negative tolerance
sanguificative
shared source multiprocessing
ship derrick
Shēh Husēn
signal synchronizing system
stationary iterative method
synchronous logical circuit
tablature
tilmen
Tirunelveli
trailbreaker
tree limit
uniform adsorption
vase form training
West Danby
withdraw from partnership
wood stave
work long hours
writ of extent
zahl