By IANS
Caracas : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that he received a letter from Colombia’s largest insurgency group confirming its plan to release three hostages in the next few days, EFE reported Sunday.
The letter identified the three to be released as Gloria Polanco, Orlando Beltran and Luis Eladio Perez, all former members of Colombian legislature.
Chavez, who met the family members of the three in Barinas, 520 km southwest of Caracas, said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has named a coordinator for the operation but did not disclose his name.
Interior Minister Ramon Rodriguez will represent Venezuela in the team that would receive the freed hostages, the second group of captives to be released by the rebels.
The leftist guerrilla group, which has been holding some 45 high profile captives, freed Clara Rojas and former lawmaker Consuelo Gonzalez Jan 10 after six years of captivity, as a humanitarian gesture and has proposed to swap others for their jailed compatriots.
Rojas was the running mate of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt who herself has been in captivity of the rebels for more than six years.
Chavez has played a prominent role in a peace mission that sought to negotiate the release of the hostages till he was stopped by the Colombian government of Alvaro Uribe on the ground that he overstepped his brief by speaking to the Colombian Army chief.