Poll: Most Colombians prefer hard-line against guerillas

A poll released today showed that nearly 3 in every 5 Colombians in the country’s four main cities back President Alvaro Uribe’s hard-line policy against leftist guerrillas. Over the weekend, Uribe repeated his call to not cede to the rebels’ demands for a demilitarized zone where peace negotiations could take place.

In the meantime, a spokesman for the International Red Cross said that the FARC guerilla group contacted him over the possibility of giving the bodies of eleven regional legislators killed while being held hostage. It was last Thursday when millions of Colombians took to the streets marching against violence and for the liberation of hundreds of kidnap victims.

Sources (Spanish)- El Tiempo, RCN

Sources (English)- MSNBC, The Latin Americanist

Image- RFI en Español