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Article: Hollywood director meeting kidnappers: ; Oliver Stone joins mission seeking release of hostages held by rebels
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- December 31, 2007
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia - With its fearsome record of kidnapping
and violence, Colombia's largest guerrilla army might seem a
nightmare group to encounter. But not to Oliver Stone.
The American filmmaker is jumping at a chance to meet with a
group the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.
Leaving the glamor of Hollywood far behind, Stone arrived in the
steamy Colombian city of Villavicencio on Saturday as part of a
mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to retrieve three
hostages held for years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, or FARC.
"I have no illusions about the FARC, but it looks like they are a
peasant army fighting for a decent living," Stone said in an ...
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