Clara de Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, the two hostages freed on Thursday by Colombia's rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), met with their families at Venezuela's Maiqueti airport.
Clara de Rojas, 76, said it seemed like a dream to see her daughter after such a long time, when the daughter kissed her mother.
Gonzalez's two daughters had a tearful re-union with their mother on the tarmac.
The first person that emerged from the Venezuelan airplane that transported them from Santo Domingo, in the Venezuelan state of Tachira, to Caracas, was Consuelo Gonzalez. She was welcomed with flowers by her daughters.
Clara de Rojas got off from the airplane immediately afterwards and was welcomed by her mother and other family members. The family celebrated her return to freedom, after six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle.
Gonzalez said she felt she was starting to live again, while she hugged her daughters. "Sometimes I think I live in a dream," the former legislator said.
In an interview over phone with Colombia's Caracol radio, Rojas, the former candidate to Colombia's vice presidency in 2002, said her son Emmanuel was born in the jungle on April 16, 2004 and that she lived with him for eight months, until she was separated from him.
Gonzalez, kidnapped by FARC in September 2001, and Rojas, kidnapped in February 2002, arrived at Venezuela's Maiquetia international airport in apparently good health conditions. The two women were handed over by a FARC commando Thursday morning.
Source:Xinhua
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