A European Commission official responsible for development projects at the EU's Colombia and Ecuador mission has been missing for the past ten days.
The EU's Bogota-based office lost contact with Carlos Ayala-Saavedra around April 17, while he was travelling through the Colombian countryside near Cucuta on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
The country's second largest rebel-group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), which funds itself through kidnapping, has been active in the re...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.