“It's not kidnapping”: Guaviare leader on retaining soldiers

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“It's not kidnapping”: Guaviare leader on retaining soldiers

For three days, 98 soldiers from the Army's Omega Task Force were held by a peasant guard in San José del Guaviare. Both the Defense and Interior Ministers have insisted that they were kidnappings by the Central General Staff (EMC) under the command of “Calarcá”. For his part, Diomedes Torres, a peasant leader from Guaviare, said in an interview with W Radio that they were not kidnappings, but detentions. He even described the statements of the …