A video of Ecuadorian journalists murdered by the FARC dissident led by "Guacho" has been revealed

A video of just over a minute in which appear the three members of a team of Ecuadorian journalists, one of whom reveals that they were abducted a few years ago. days by the FARC, was released Wednesday a year after the kidnapping.

In the recording, published by the portal Glbad codewhich is part of Arturo Torres, one of the authors of the book "Hostages" which recounts the case of the kidnapping and murder of Paúl Rivas (photographer), Javier Ortega (publisher) and Efraín Segarra (conductor)the three appear, dressed in the garment with which they disappeared, with apparent tranquility and good health.

The interlocutor of the same is Ortega, who ensures that all three are being "well treated"by her captors, whom she identifies as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and urges the Ecuadorian government to move the strings for her release.

The driver's son, the journalist Cristhian Segarraconfirmed at EFE What I did not know the existence of the video and that this must have been recorded a few hours after the disappearance of his father and the other two members of the journalistic team.

"It touched us and we still generated feelings in the heart to see them alive and listen to Javier, make sure they're okay and that their life depends on a state that does nothing, "he explained.

Families, he added, "will continue to ask the government to respond to doubts that exist regarding the treatment of kidnapping on the part of the authorities, to whom we add today a new "with the publication of this video.

For his part, the other author of the book "Hostages", the journalist María Belén Arroyo, said that this video "is another proof of the systematic concealment of information", which prevailed at that time and until now as part of the efforts developed by the crisis committee to resolve the situation.

"The concealment of the information is clear when a year and a day later we knew it was one of the evidences of the life that had been sent," he said.

Tuesday was a year after the kidnapping of the three members of Quito's daily team Trade, who traveled to the area north of the border between Ecuador and Colombia, to deal with the deteriorating security situation in the region where armed criminal groups operate, mainly dedicated to drug traffic.

After pbading an Ecuadorian security check and reaching Mataje, They were captured and transferred to Colombian territory by Front Oliver Sinisterra, dissident of the FARC, under the command of an alias until then unknown, "Guacho"., killed eight months later by Colombian forces.

According to Arroyo, the video shows the existence of two different moments during the kidnapping of the team: a first in which they are "relatively well", even if they lost their freedom of movement, and a second that emerges from the only video known to that day in which the hostages seem chained and visibly affected.

According to the authors of the documentary book, this last registration was sent to the Ecuadorian authorities on April 2, 2018, five days before the execution of the detainees.

"In the video of Monday, April 2, you see them with cut hair, with obvious weight loss, with other clothes, and you see them chained"commented the reporter.

His family on Tuesday urged the authorities to clarify the new journalistic revelations published in recent months compared to what appears in the book "The hostages" while they deny many of the statements they made these twelve months .