2023-07-07 23:55:56
He ELN released this Friday an Army sergeant and their two children, ages 6 and 8, one of them with autism, kidnapped this week by the guerrillas when they were traveling along a highway in the department of Arauca.
It’s regarding the Sergeant Ghislaine Karina Ramírez and her two children who were traveling in a private car through the municipality of Fortul (Arauca) to visit the father of the children, who was also a soldier, when they were detained by the ELN’s Domingo Laín Front.
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The sergeant and minors were received in apparent good health, according to the report of the Ombudsman’s Office, which made a call to leave the boys and girls out of the armed conflict.
He kidnapping provoked a massive rejection by the governmentwith whom the guerrillas are sitting at the table in peace talks that have already held three rounds, which demanded the release of the hostages and asked the ELN not to give contradictory signals.
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Petro refuses to call what happened a kidnapping
Regarding the kidnapping of the sergeant and her children, President Gustavo Petro spoke this Friday from Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca).
Although the whole country knows that it was a kidnapping, the Head of State referred in other terms to the plagiarism of the uniformed woman and her minor children.
According to President Gustavo Petro, the kidnapping of the three – sergeant and sons – was a detention.
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“Today we register with satisfaction, although the event should never have occurred, the release of the sergeant and her children who had been taken by the ELN and finally released by this armed group with which a national bilateral ceasefire has been decreed, with verification mechanisms that began yesterday, Thursday,” he said.
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Logically, on social networks, President Petro has been heavily criticized for having referred to the kidnapping as a “retention.”
And it is that the kidnapping of the sergeant and her children occurred just a few days before the cessation of offensive actions ordered by the Central Command of the ELN to all its troops began.
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