According to the Colombian military, this same unit remained in the area for 43 days and did not find the captives until they accidentally ran into the FARC camp on the way back, which led to a shootout.

According to Amnesty International, the number of kidnappings has decreased in recent years but the human rights organization estimates that FARC and ELN guerrillas continue to be behind hundreds of cases.

According to the Fundación País Libre anti-kidnapping NGO, an estimated total of 6, 778 people were kidnapped by FARC between 1997 and 2007.

According to the ICBL Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor, " FARC is probably the most prolific current user of antipersonnel mines among rebel groups anywhere in the world.

" According to P. W. Singer, the FARC attack upon the Guatape hydroelectric facility in 1998 had allegedly involved militants as young as 8 years old and a 2001 FARC training video depicted boys as young as 11 working with missiles.

According to press reports the FARC and ELN have transformed the department into a ' fortress ', effectively launching attacks against security forces on a daily basis.

According to several reports Los Rastrojos are involved in production and distribution of the drug, which threatens to further escalate the war between them and the FARC in Valle del Cauca.

According to the BBC, " the FARC have for some years moved to take over ELN territory near the Venezuelan border, and the smaller rebel army reacted by killing several FARC militants ".

According to analysts, witnesses and internal FARC documents from the group's 1982 Seventh Guerrilla Conference, the FARC originally intended for the creation of a group of clandestine party cells to be its political branch for recruitment and ideological propaganda purposes, while simultaneously maintaining its armed strength intact, at least initially, as part of the " combination of all forms of struggle ".

According to many observers, such a situation had not been strictly true for long, and the FARC itself later began to further distance itself from the group amid the bloodshed.

According to his instructions, FARC added ranks and badges to many of its uniforms, as well as introducing a new inventory system for firearms and ammunition, in addition to providing new weapons and technology for FARC militants.

According to the FARC, they invite all the Colombian women to join in what they consider as their struggle against the injustices of society.

According to some historical reports about the FARC in the 1970s, they then decided to form a military academy similar to the ones in existing socialist countries, like those in the Soviet Union, Cuba, and also like those employed by its enemies, like the United States and the United Kingdom.

According to Velleius Paterculus the foundation of Rome occurred 437 years after the capture of Troy by the Achaeans ( 1182 BC ).

According to another view, Valerian's disaster and capture at the battle of Edessa was the trigger for the subsequent revolts of Ingenuus, Regalianus and Postumus.

According to the tale, Callixtus jumped overboard to avoid capture but was rescued and taken back to his master.

According to Marvel canon, Sentinels are programmed to locate mutants and capture or kill them.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, total world capture fisheries production in 2000 was 86 million tons ( FAO 2002 ).

According to legend, the foundation of Rome took place 438 years after the capture of Troy ( 1182 BC ), according to Velleius Paterculus ( VIII, 5 ).

According to the late tradition, Munuza, the Berber governor of Iegione ( either Gijón or León ), became attracted to Pelagius ' sister and sent word to Tariq ibn Ziyad, who ordered him to capture Pelagius and send him to Córdoba.

According to Hecht, the film will likely be produced in a combination of live action and CGI, or motion capture ; the character will be set in the present day, with Tom Swift working for leading green company Swift Enterprises.

According to, while David was encamped with the Philistine army for an attack on the Kingdom of Israel, Ziklag was raided by Amalekites ; the Amalekites burning the town, and capturing its population without killing them ( scholars think this capture refers to enslavement ).

According to Dumezil, Festus ' identification of Bona Dea with Damia infers a foundation date in or shortly after 272 BC, after Rome's capture of Tarentum ; but Cicero claimed the goddess ' cult as coeval with Rome's foundation.

According to the Prose Edda, Kvasir was instrumental in the capture and binding of Loki, and an euhemerized account of the god appears in Heimskringla, where he is attested as the wisest among the Vanir.

According to the historian Asser, Guthrum ’ s initial battle with Alfred resulted in a victory, as he was able to capture “ the castellum ” as well as the ancient square earthworks known as the “ Wareham ” where a convent of nuns existed.

According to local sources, following the capture of the town, its inhabitants chose a Morisco as a mayor and since his Christian faith was doubted, he accepted to be baptized in public after which the town erupted in festivities.

According to Parsaye, there are three major approaches to the capture of tacit knowledge from groups and individuals.

According to longline capture data, increasing distance from land correlates to a greater population of sharks.

According to the legend, Māui's grandmother helped him capture the sun and force it to slow its journey across the sky in order to lengthen the day.

According to Hughes, the animal had always avoided capture despite its habit of always walking backward.

According to the Books of Samuel, the Jebusites managed to resist attempts by the Israelites to capture the city, and by the time of King David were mocking such attempts, claiming that even the blind and lame could defeat the Israelite army.

According to George Douglas, in his delirium he lamented the capture of his banner and Oliver Sinclair at Solway Moss more than his other losses.

According to a local legend, it was Vladimir the Great to build the first stone castle there in 1001 following the Polish capture of Kiev in 1018 the region for a short time was made part of Poland, but returned under Kievan rule in 1031.

According to one recent study examining the affective responses and attentional capture of sexual stimuli in women with and without HSDD, women with HSDD do not appear to have a negative association to sexual stimuli, but rather a weaker positive association than women without HSDD

According to the SAS regimental roll of honour, it states that Phillips died of exposure while evading capture in Iraq on the 22nd of January 1991 at the age of 36.

According to the game's designer, Yu Suzuki, the stages of OutRun are mostly based on European scenery ; he had toured Europe in order to gain insight on how to design the game's levels and capture as much realism as possible.

According to Adler, only when science begins to capture the same religious fervour, and promotes the welfare of all segments of society, will the two be more equal in peoples ' eyes.

According to Mark Hall, the Epitaph did indeed print a story about the capture of a large, unusual winged creature, on April 26, 1890.

According to some sources, Sarkozy himself asked for Uribe to release FARC's " chancellor " Rodrigo Granda.

According to the twelfth-century Crónica Najerense, a battle was fought during which campaign his alférez, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, defeated his Navarrese counterpart, Jimeno Garcés, and gained the nickname campi doctor or " master of the field battle ", later to become famous in Spanish literature as el Campeador.

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people.

According to some commentators, Kirchner was seen as part of a spectrum of new South American leaders, including Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil and Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay, who see the Washington consensus as an unsuccessful model for economic development in the region.

According to Chávez and other supporters, the " Bolivarian Revolution " seeks to build a mass movement to implement Bolivarianism-popular democracy, economic independence, equitable distribution of revenues, and an end to political corruption-in Venezuela.

According to an article in the New York Sun, Chavezism was rejected in recent elections in Peru, Colombia and Mexico, and El Universal reports that former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva distanced himself from Chavezism, saying that Brazil is not Venezuela, and has traditional institutions.

According to the 160 article of the Constitution of Venezuela, the governor must be Venezuelan, greater of twenty-five years and Secularity state, is chosen by a four years term, by simple majority, and can be reelected.

According to the 160 article of the Constitution of Venezuela, the governor must be Venezuelan, greater of twenty-five years and Secularity state, is chosen by a four years term, by simple majority, and can be reelected by another period.

According to British author and former GLC member George Tremlett, Libyan children spent two hours a week studying the book as part of their curriculum ; extracts were broadcast every day on television and radio ; its slogans were found on billboards and painted on buildings in Libya ; and as of 1993 lectures and seminars on it at universities and colleges have been held in France, Eastern Europe, Colombia, and Venezuela.

According to the 2001 census there were 15, 094 Pemon speakers in Venezuela.

According to the UN Law of the Seas it is classified as a rock, which would only give Venezuela a twelve mile economic zone.

According to Cuban television, Granado requested that his body be cremated and his ashes spread in Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela.

According to several different sources, his wife's family comes from the prestigious Royal Court of New England, which migrated to Venezuela after her predecessor relinquished a mission entrusted upon him by the Kingdom.

According to a report in The New York Times, Reich warned Congressional aides there was more at stake in Venezuela than simply the success or failure of Hugo Chávez.

According to a report of the Venezuelan intelligence agency, the DISIP, " in Venezuela the Mansurs are implicated in money laundering with Lopesierra.