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Father of Liverpool star Diaz not leaving Colombia after kidnapping

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BOGOTA — The father of Liverpool football player Luis Diaz said on Friday (Nov 10) he will keep living in Colombia after enduring nearly two weeks of captivity by guerrillas, marked by sleepless nights and exhausting days of horseback riding through the mountains.

Luis Manuel Diaz, 58, was released on Thursday by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) 12 days after he was taken hostage on Oct 28 in Barrancas, a rural municipality where he lives in the northern province of La Guajira.


Diaz's capture stoked criticism of ongoing peace talks between the ELN and the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro, who is trying to put an end to Colombia's six-decade internal conflict that has left more than 450,000 dead.


The government and the ELN began a six-month ceasefire in August.


"My aspirations are to continue in my town because I have my entire family in my town," Diaz said at a press conference.


"The government has given me impressively strong and great support. I trust and have faith that it will provide me security to be in Barrancas."


The kidnapping underscored the lack of control that the ELN's top brass exerts over their rank and file, according to analysts and security sources.


Diaz on Friday offered details of his captivity, during which his kidnappers advised him to remain calm, he said.


"A lot of quite difficult horseback riding, lots of mountains, rain," Diaz said, recalling "almost 12 days without sleep."


"Even though the treatment was good, I didn't feel very comfortable," he said.


The ELN, made up of 5,800 members, including some 2,800 combatants, is considered a terrorist organisation by the US and the European Union.


The rebel group is accused of financing itself through kidnapping, in addition to drug trafficking, illegal mining and extortion.


On Friday, the group's top commander, Antonio Garcia, said on social media that the peace negotiations did not prohibit kidnappings as a means of financing.


Source: Reuters


利物浦球星迪亚兹的父亲在被绑架后没有离开哥伦比亚


波哥大——利物浦足球运动员路易斯·迪亚兹的父亲周五(11 月 10 日)表示,在经历了近两周的游击队囚禁后,他将继续住在哥伦比亚,期间经历了不眠之夜和骑马穿越山区的疲惫日子。


58 岁的路易斯·曼努埃尔·迪亚兹 (Luis Manuel Diaz) 于 10 月 28 日在巴兰卡斯 (Barrancas) 被劫持为人质,12 天后于周四被左翼民族解放军 (ELN) 释放。巴兰卡斯是他居住的北部拉瓜希拉省的一个乡村城市。


迪亚兹的被捕引发了人们对民族解放军与左翼总统古斯塔沃·佩特罗政府之间正在进行的和平谈判的批评,后者正试图结束哥伦比亚长达六年的内部冲突,这场冲突已造成超过 45 万人死亡。


政府和民族解放军于八月开始为期六个月的停火。


迪亚兹在新闻发布会上说:“我的愿望是继续留在我的城镇,因为我的整个家庭都在我的城镇。”


“政府给了我令人印象深刻的强大支持。我相信并相信它将为我在巴兰卡斯提供安全保障。”


分析人士和安全消息人士称,这起绑架事件凸显了民族解放军高层对其普通士兵缺乏控制。


迪亚兹周五提供了他被囚禁的细节,他说,绑架者建议他保持冷静。


迪亚兹回忆起“几乎 12 天没有睡觉”时说,“很多次骑马都很困难,翻山越岭,还下雨。”


“尽管治疗效果很好,但我感觉不太舒服,”他说。


ELN 由 5,800 名成员组成,其中包括约 2,800 名战斗人员,被美国和欧盟视为恐怖组织。


该反叛组织被指控通过绑架、贩毒、非法采矿和勒索等方式为自己筹集资金。


周五,该组织最高指挥官安东尼奥·加西亚在社交媒体上表示,和平谈判并未禁止将绑架作为融资手段。

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