Local Colombians, supporters take part in worldwide vigil – Rhode Island

In 2000, Maria Inez Lopez, then mayor of the tiny town of Santa Rosa de Cabal in the far regions of Risaralda, Colombia, headed to visit people in the mountains when she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

She spent one month in captivity walking through the mountains and contained in a pen of barbed wire and electrical fencing before the government’s military police rescued her and others who had been captured by FARC.

Yesterday, she joined some 175 fellow Colombians and others who gathered in Central Falls as part of a worldwide vigil for peace in Colombia and to condemn the FARC. In Colombia, hundreds of thousands reportedly took to the streets to march against the rebels. They were joined by protests in other Latin American countries and smaller protests in countries including India, Spain, Japan, France, London, Sweden and Italy.”*

*From: www.projo.com
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