Rally for hostage held by FARC
From Times Wire Reports
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy joined several thousand marchers who rallied in Paris to demand freedom for kidnapped Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.
Betancourt, a French-Colombian citizen, was taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in 2002 while campaigning for Colombia’s presidency.
Similar demonstrations were organized in about 10 other French cities.
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