Colombian senator kidnapped, president targeted in election run-up

Senator Aida Quilcue, an Indigenous activist and human rights prize recipient, was taken around lunchtime by unknown people in her home department of Cauca, a conflict-ridden, coca-growing region controlled in large part by dissidents of the now-disbanded FARC guerrilla army. Quilcue, 53, was kidnapped while travelling in an SUV with two bodyguards, according to her daughter, Alejandra Legarda. Members of an Indigenous guard group later found the vehicle, "but with no-one inside," added Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez on X.