6 hostages held by the FARC for over 5 years have been released, and they are thanking Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez for “giving them back their lives”. However, the hostages report that Ingrid Betancourt, the FARC’s “prized” hostage is in grave health, and that she may only have months to live if she isn’t taken to a hospital. Spain’s Europa Press has footage (below) of the hostages’ first moments of freedom, as well Hugo Chávez’s personal plea to the FARC to, at the very least, move Betancourt to a location “closer to him”:

The FARC says they won’t liberate any other hostages unless President Álvaro Uribe demilitarizes an area in southwest Colombia, a petition which Uribe rejected today.

Via / Europa Press and Prensa