FARC would have enabled protocol to release a Colombian General

The communist guerrillas of the FARC announced that they activated in the early hours of Saturday a special humanitarian protocol for the release on Sunday of General Rubén Alzate, a condition required by the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, to resume peace talks in Cuba.

“At dawn today was enabled the Special Humanitarian Protocol that will return to freedom, Sunday morning, to the general Alzate Mora, head of Task Force Titán army, (Jorge) Rodriguez Contreras and attorney Gloria Urrego” who will be conducted to “a military garrison ordered by the Colombian government,” said the peace delegation of FARC in a statement on the island.

Alzate, Rodriguez and Urrego, captured on November 16, will be delivered “by guerrilla commanders of the block Ivan Rios, to the representatives of the guarantor countries of the peace process, Cuba and Norway, and to the ICRC (International Committee of Red Cross), “the insurgent group said in the statement, posted on their blog (www.pazfarc-ep.org).

The guerrillas said the hope “this freedom, based on humanitarian reasons, extend its benefits to social and political prisoners in the country”.