Families Of Farc Hostages Receive Letters From Missing Loved Ones. The Farc? Still Not Terrorists!

Consuelo Gonzalez and Clara Rojas, the two women freed by the Farc recently, were able to dsitribute letters to the families of the hostages still being held in Colombia. Below, some excepts:

LUIS MENDIETA, POLICE COLONEL, HELD NINE YEARS

Letter to Caracol Radio which broadcasts messages to the hostages every Sunday

During these last years, we thought we had reached the limit of suffering, but after nine, eight, seven years of captivity we’ve reached the conclusion that the suffering caused by kidnapping knows no limits…

It is not the physical pain that wounds me, nor the chain around my neck that torments me, but the mental agony of all this, the evilness of bad people and the indifference of good people. It is as if we are worthless, that we do not exist.

JORGE GECHEM, FORMER CONGRESSMAN, HELD FIVE YEARS

[Writes to his wife that he suffers a serious heart condition and can no longer walk because of a back problem]

I’ve thought about two alternatives for my health.

First is if [Cuban] president Fidel Castro could be asked to intervene and request [Colombian] President Alvaro Uribe and Farc [rebel] leaders that I be transferred to a Cuban hospital for treatment.

If I recover, I would immediately go to a prison in Havana as a political prisoner and await a humanitarian exchange.

I want to continue living… But my physical resistance is waning, I feel worn out and tired.

Nope. Still not terrorists.

Letters detail Colombian hostages’ lives [BBC]