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The Colombian security forces rescued the niece of the late writer Gabriel García Márquez, who has been kidnapped since August in the north of the country. Eleven of the criminals were arrested.
"In the morning, as part of a coordinated operation of the security forces … Melisa Martínez García was released in the department of Magdalena," said Colombian President Iván Duque in Bogotá
who was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, was "saved in an impeccable operation of human intelligence, strategic intelligence (developed) for several months to preserve his life and reach the leaders of this organization", was -he adds.
The operation, during which eleven people were arrested, occurred in an area on the border with Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, said General Jorge Nieto.
He explained that Martínez García was in the hands of an "organization that has a common criminal incidence, but its leaders are part of structures belonging to paramilitary groups".
The gang demands a ransom of five million dollars. She was abducted on August 23 when she left a banana farm located near the Caribbean city of Santa Marta.
Martinez is the granddaughter of Luis Enrique García Márquez, brother of the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
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