At gunpoint in Colombia, priest forced to speak for guerrillas through Church’s loudspeakers

At gunpoint in Colombia, priest forced to speak for guerrillas through Church’s loudspeakers

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – During a 10-hour raid on the Colombian town of Buenos Aires, near Cali, guerrillas machine-gunned public buildings, attacked police and forced the local vicar to relay their messages through the church’s sound system on December 16. In one of the most dramatic moments of the assault waged by the Jaime Martínez Front, a dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Father Winston Chávez was taken at gun…