Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Thursday received two female hostages released by rebels in Colombia.
Chavez, who acted as a mediator in the release of Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, greeted the two women and their families with a military welcome parade and the national anthems of Colombia and Venezuela.
Following the 10-minute ceremony, broadcast on radio and television networks throughout the South American nation, Chavez met the freed hostages and their families.
Earlier, two helicopters sent by Chavez picked up Rojas and Gonzalez in a jungle in southern Colombia, ending their six-year captivity by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest rebel group.
The two women, both are Colombian politicians, were handed over to a Venezuelan-led international humanitarian mission by FARC rebels in the jungle.
They arrived at the Santo Domingo airport in the Venezuelan state of Tachira, where they were transferred to Venezuela's capital Caracas.
Source:Xinhua
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