Colombia FARC negotiators say fate of captured general in hands of leadership

By Rosa Tania Valdés and Helen Murphy HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian rebel peace negotiators in Havana cannot order the release of an army general captured by their comrades and will defer to the group’s top commander back home, a leader of the FARC negotiating team said on Wednesday. The government has suspended Colombian peace talks being held in Cuba until General Ruben Dario Alzate – seized over the weekend as he left a boat in the coastal region of Choco – is freed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). …