Columbia launched an all-out effort to free politician Ingrid Betancourt on Friday, offering cash and reduced jail terms to leftist guerrillas in exchange for releasing her after years of captivity in jungle camps.
Betancourt, a French-Colombian national snatched by the rebels during her 2002 presidential campaign, is reportedly suffering from malnutrition and hepatitis B.
President Alvaro Uribe, a conservative U.S. ally, said his government will maintain a $100 million fund to pay rewards to guerrillas who free any of the hundreds of kidnap victims held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia, or FARC
"We will resolve their legal problems and offer financial compensation," Uribe said on Friday.
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