Urgent: Piedad Cordoba de Castro Abducted
URGENT ACTION REQUESTED

Today, May 21, about about 12:45 pm PIEDAD CORDOBA DE CASTRO, a senator from the Colombian parliament, was kidnapped in Medellin. She is a committed defender of human rights, of the rights of women, and of the cause of peace in Colombia.

She was leaving a clinic where she had a medical appointment when she was approached by a group of 15 armed men who did not identify themselves. It is not clear if the authors of the kidnapping were paramilitaries or guerrillas. These circumstances lead us to fear very much for her safety. For that reason we ask yoiu to write letters or send faxes demanding that she be immediately release and also that her physical well-being be respected.

Write to:

President ANDRES PASTRANA ARANGO
Casa de Narino
Carrera 8 No. 7-26
Santafe de Bogota, D.C.
COLOMBIA, South America
Fax  (571) 286-7434 or 286-6842 or 286-2186 or 337-1351
pastrana@presidencia.gov.co

Doctor JAIME BERNAL CUELLAR
Procurador General de la Nacion
Carrera 5 No. 15-80
Santafe de Bogota, D. C.
COLOMBIA, South America
Fax: (571) 342-9723 or 336-0011 or 352-0066 ext. 12504

Sr. Nestor Humberto Martinez
Ministro del Interior
Fax  (571) 341 9739 or 286-8025

Sr. Alberto Builes Ortega
Gobernador de Antioquia
Fax (574) 381 1342

Sr. Juan Gomez Martinez
Alcalde de Medellin
Fax (574) 381 1852

General Fernando Tapias Stahelin
Comandante General Fuerzas Militares
Fax (571) 222 2935