{"id":82271,"date":"2023-11-10T22:35:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T22:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/father-of-liverpool-football-star-luis-diaz-reveals-details-of-kidnapping-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T22:35:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T22:35:44","slug":"father-of-liverpool-football-star-luis-diaz-reveals-details-of-kidnapping-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/father-of-liverpool-football-star-luis-diaz-reveals-details-of-kidnapping-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of Liverpool football star Luis Diaz reveals details of kidnapping | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The father of Liverpool star Luis Diaz has revealed details of his captivity – and said he intends to keep living in Colombia despite his ordeal. <\/p>\n

Luis Manuel Diaz was released<\/strong> on Thursday after spending 12 days in the hands of guerrillas.<\/p>\n

During a press conference, the 58-year-old said his kidnappers had advised him to remain calm.<\/p>\n

He said he had “almost 12 days without sleep” and had to endure “a lot of quite difficult horseback riding, lots of mountains, rain”.<\/p>\n

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“Even though the treatment was good, I didn’t feel very comfortable,” he said.<\/p>\n

He and his wife were abducted by armed men<\/strong> on motorcycles at a petrol station in the town of Barrancas, near Colombia’s border with Venezuela on 28 October.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old footballer’s mother, Cilenis Marulanda, was rescued within hours by police after roadblocks were set up.<\/p>\n

“My aspirations are to continue in my town because I have my entire family in my town,” Mr Diaz said.<\/p>\n

“The government has given me impressively strong and great support. I trust and have faith that it will provide me security to be in Barrancas.”<\/p>\n

During his captivity special forces were deployed to search for Mr Diaz – with air and land patrols trawling a mountain range that straddles both Colombia<\/strong> <\/strong>and Venezuela.<\/p>\n

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Officials said they could not rule out the possibility that he had been smuggled over the border – meaning he would have been out of reach of Colombian police.<\/p>\n

A reward of $48,000 (\u00a339,000) had been offered for information leading police to the hostage.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool winger had pleaded with his father’s captors to release him – and said he and his brothers were in a “desperate” situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Diaz was eventually released by guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN), according to the Colombian FA.<\/p>\n

The capture stoked criticism of ongoing peace talks between the ELN and the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro, who is trying to put an end to Colombia’s six-decade internal conflict that has left more than 450,000 dead.<\/p>\n

The government and the ELN began a six-month ceasefire in August.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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