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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 Colombia announced Wednesday that it had rescued former (2002) presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt together with 14 other prisoners held by the FARC rebel group, a Marxist-inspired army which has been fighting the Colombian government for more than four decades.
The rescue operation comes after the killing and capture in recent months of several senior commanders of the FARC and was carried out Wednesday in Guaviare, a jungle region in south-central Colombia. Hopes for the hostages’ freedom had increased after the death or surrender of several top leaders in recent months including death for natural causes of FARC’s senior leader Manuel Marulanda, who built the Marxist rebel army from the remnants of a rural guerrilla group. Today the FARC remains Latin America’s largest insurgency, with about 9,000 fighters.