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    “Liverpool Star’s Father Freed: Kidnapping Ordeal Ends”

    November 9, 2023
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    The father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz has been freed by his captors in Colombia – almost two weeks after being kidnapped.

    Luis Manuel Diaz was released by guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) according to the Colombian FA.

    He had been abducted by armed men while driving in La Guajira.

    The 26-year-old star’s mother, Cilenis Marulanda, was rescued within hours by police after roadblocks were set up.

    Those negotiating peace talks with the ELN celebrated Mr Diaz’s freedom but made it clear the kidnapping “should never have happened”, in a statement.

    It said: “The current process with the ELN has advanced like no other until today. Regardless, our delegation considers that the kidnapping of Luis Manuel Diaz has placed our dialogue in a critical situation and because of it, the time has come to take decisions to eliminate kidnapping.”

    All people being held by the ELN must be liberated, the statement added, though it did not give a figure for the remaining hostages.

    Diaz’s parents were abducted by armed men on motorcycles at a petrol station in the town of Barrancas, near Colombia’s border with Venezuela on 28 October.

    The Liverpool winger had pleaded with his father’s captors to release him, having said he and his brothers were in a “desperate” situation.

    Diaz was back in training on Friday, before coming off the bench to save Liverpool from a shock defeat at Luton on Sunday, claiming a stoppage-time equaliser to snatch a 1-1 draw.

    He lifted his shirt in celebration to reveal a message on a white T-shirt that read “libertad para papa” or “freedom for my father”.

    The kidnapping of Diaz’s father disrupted the Colombian government’s peace talks with the ELN which restarted last year in hopes of ending the group’s part in the country’s 60-year conflict, which has killed at least 450,000 people.

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