the motorcade International Freedom of Kidnapped, an initiative calling for the release of prisoners of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) , left last Friday, November 6 from Madrid for France, Italy and the Vatican. The goal is to get their message across Europe, and its components have already done earlier in Colombia and Ecuador. A total of 160 motorcycles participated in the stage in Madrid, which left the park of El Retiro. The call was made by the journalist Herbin Hoyos, director of the program "Voices of Kidnapping ', through which the families of the captured messages are sent.
The 60 bikers arrived from Colombia, and all who join them on the road, will travel 5,000 miles through Spain, France and Italy to reach the Vatican, where they will be received on November 18 by Pope Benedict XVI.
"We send that message to Europe, which is to say that not all the hostages in Colombia emerged in Operation Jaque," said Herbin Hoyos in relation to the military operation last year allowed the release of Ingrid Betancourt francocolombiana the hands of the FARC.
Colombian journalist, who led off the convoy on a motorbike shared with the Father Angel, president of the NGO Messengers of Peace, which supported the initiative, recalled that in Colombia there is still "23 policemen and soldiers and more than 3,000 civilians who are still rotting in the jungle. "
But this caravan engine not only demands release of hostages by the FARC, but also of all persons who currently are hostages of all types of organizations, in countries like El Salvador, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico or Venezuela, as well as the 36 sailors held within the Basque tuna Alakrana off the coast of Somalia.
SOURCE: AFP
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