BOGOTÁ –
Also the Spanish journalist Salud Hernández was in may of last year kidnapped in the area where the team of without a trace, disappeared. The ELN held Hernández five days. The correspondent of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo is angry that the guerrillas, now again have struck. “There is no justification to two Dutch journalists to abduct. The ELN remains the same crimes,” says Hernández on Twitter.
The Spanish correspondent, who also writes for local Colombian newspapers, was last year on may 23, kidnapped and five days held by the ultra-left club ELN. She eventually became on may 27 released. Two Colombian journalists who at the same time kidnapped and were, Diego D’Pablos and Carlos Melo, a few hours later released.
Hernandez is always critical about the FARC and the ELN. They found that there is only peace negotiations with these organisations conducted could be if all the hostages would be released. “If peace with the FARC is already complicated as is… with the ELN, it is impossible,” says Hernández.