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Imprisoned
May 10
Ana Lucia Betancur, Noticiero Nacional, IMPRISONED
Betancur, a prominent reporter for the television news program "Noticiero Nacional," was kidnapped by leftist rebels in the southwest city of Cali. She was released unharmed five days later with a message from her kidnappers to the government of President Ernesto Samper. In the fall of 1995, after unknown gunmen killed three-time presidential candidate Alvaro G—mez Hurtado, the government declared a state of emergency and enacted measures that prohibited the media from carrying any statements made by leftist guerrillas.
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