Colombian police have arrested Gustavo Alvarez, a senior member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in the Pacific port of Buenaventura, police said Thursday.
Alvarez, known as "Santiago," was one of the commanders of the Manuel Cepeda front of FARC. According to police, he and six others were arrested Thursday at an entertainment center in Buenaventura.
Alvarez is accused of terrorism, rebellion, and homicide. The Manuel Cepeda front is blamed for kidnapping 12 representatives ofa regional assembly in 2002 and keeping them hostage until 11 of them died in 2007.
The Colombian government considered that the rebels killed the hostages in "cold blood."
The FARC is the largest guerrilla group in Latin America, and has been seeking to topple the Colombian government for four decades. It is holding 700 hostages whom it wants to exchange for FARC members imprisoned by the government.
Source:Xinhua
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