BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian rebel group the National Liberation Army said on Monday it would soon free a Canadian citizen it seized six months ago after his employer, gold miner Braeval, decided it would no longer mine in the area where he was kidnapped.
The smaller of Colombia's two insurgent groups, known as the ELN, said the mining company's decision "showed goodwill" and brings closer the release of geologist Jernoc Wobert, who was kidnapped along with two Peruvian and three Colombian colleagues in northern Bolivar province. The other captives were freed weeks later.
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