Colombian Rebel Thought He Would Be Killed
A rebel whose capture in Venezuela has touched off a diplomatic crisis with Colombia believed that he was going to be killed by his captors, his lawyer said Tuesday. Rodrigo Granda was snatched off the streets of Caracas by bounty hunters — purported to be moonlighting Venezuelan law enforcement officers — on Dec. 13 and driven, bound and stuffed in the trunk of a car, to the Colombian border. The Colombian government has acknowledged paying the bounty. Full Story