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participating in the "Path to Peace" operation, transported the
Colombians to the Santo Domingo base in the state of Tachira in the
Venezuelan Andes, where a plane awaited them for travel to Caracas.

"The release of the former Congress people is an accomplishment of
humanitarian persistence and President Hugo Chavez and Sen. Cordova's
sincere concern for peace in Colombia," stated a FARC communiqu=E9 made
public on Wednesday.

However, in their text the guerrilla organization demands the
Colombian military withdrawal for 45 days "with the FARC and the
international community as guarantors" of the municipalities of
Pradera and Florida "to negotiate with the government the release of
the guerrillas [held by the government] and the prisoners of war in
the hands of the FARC."