Colombian FARC dissidents take UN official hostage
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BOGOTA -- A member of a United Nations team working on a project in Colombia to substitute illegal crops was kidnapped by dissident former FARC rebels who have rejected the peace process, UN, police and military sources said on Thursday.
The UN official Arley Lopez, a Colombian, was seized on Wednesday by gunmen close to Miraflores in southern Guaviare province, where coca cultivation has long formed a big part of Colombia's cocaine production. He was stopped by armed men in a convoy of vehicles, the sources said.
