U.S. Judge Orders Colombia’s Now-Demobilized Insurgents to Compensate Family of Kidnapped Politician

A Pennsylvania federal judge ruled on Thursday that Colombia’s now-demobilized Marxist guerrilla, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), will have to pay $36 million in compensation to the son of Ingrid Bentacourt, a Colombian politician who was kidnapped by FARC in 2002 and held hostage for six years.

Lawrence Delloye – who was then called Lorenzo – was 13 in 2002, when his mother, now 60, was kidnapped by the Marxist guerrilla. On 2 July 2018, she and fourteen other hostages were rescued in a daring commando raid by the Colombian military.

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