BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- When Natalia Rodrigues was 15, Marxist guerrillas invaded her family's apartment building and took nine residents hostage, including her, her father and an uncle. For more than three years, the three were held captive in guerrilla jungle camps, never knowing when they would be freed -- or whether their captivity would end at all. "There were moments in which one became desperate," she said. "Everything was very monotonous, every day you did the same thing, the same rules, sit down, eat, sleep, and kill the hours," Rodrigues, now 21 and a university student, recalled. During that time, the guerrillas required their hostages to write letters, which the guerrillas used to obtain ransom payments from their families.
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