10:21 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Latin America · Comments Off
14 Jan 2008After being freed from her time as a hostage with the FARC, Clara Rojas was reunited with her son Emmanuel. The boy, now four, was last with his mother when he was 8 months old and taken from her to get medical care. At the meeting, Emmanuel gave his mother a picture and the two shared a tear jerking hug.
Emmanuel has been transferred with his mother to a special location,” said Elvira Forero, director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, which has been caring for the boy.
“They had a six-hour get-to-know session today in hopes of restoring family ties.”
She said Emmanuel would be “living with his mother temporarily until we finish all the paper work”.
The boy was renamed when he came into the custody of Colombian Child Services, but now, at the request of his mother, will be legally known as Emmanuel.
9:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Uncategorized · Comments Off
10 Jan 2008
Is Colombia talking out both sides of its mouth or is the media just not reporting things correctly? On Tuesday, Colombia said that it didn’t want any outside parties involved in hostage negotiations,but an early morning report today indicates that Colombia has authorized a renewed Venezuelan mission to get Consuelo Gonzalez and Clara Rojas.
10:42 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Politics| children · Comments Off
3 Jan 2008
The center of the drama surrounding FARC hostages has moved from Hugo Chavez and Ingrid Betancourt to a little boy known as Emmanuel. The Colombian government is saying that the FARC canceled a scheduled release of three hostages earlier this week, because they don’t have one of the promised hostages, Emmanuel. Emmanuel is the approximately 4 year old son of another hostage that was to be released, Clara Rojas. Rojas, who used to work with Ingrid Betancourt, had the boy while in FARC custody, presumably with one of her captors. Interestingly enough, little about this angle has been covered, especially the glaring possibility that Rojas was raped.
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