Kidnapped bishop returns home. (News in Brief: Colombia).Bogota--Eight months after the murder of Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino, two recent kidnapped victims, Bishop Jimenez Carvaja, president of the Latin American bishops' council and a priest, were rescued by the Colombian military. President Alvaro Uribe, in contrast to the soft approach of his predecessor, has promised to restore law and order in a country torn by a 38-year civil war. He has reassured the armed forces and his countrymen that he will back tough measures to rid the country of FARC Noun 1. FARC - a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party; opposed to the United States; has strong ties to drug dealers , Latin America's oldest and largest guerilla army and the perpetrator A term commonly used by law enforcement officers to designate a person who actually commits a crime. of thousands of kidnappings each year, including those of Catholic priests This is an annotated list of men primarily known for their work as Catholic priests. Catholic priests who are mostly known for their non-priestly work should be placed on other lists. and religious. (See C.I. News in Brief, May, June, and Nov. 2002.) Shortly after the bishop's return, the feared paramilitary group AUC AUC area under curve unilaterally declared a ceasefire in its brutal campaign against leftist left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left rebels and anyone it suspected of not being on its side. The AUC appealed to the Catholic Church to mediate the ceasefire (Toronto Star, Nov. 30/02). |
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