Yolanda Pulecio, whose daughter former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by Colombia's largest rebel group, the FARC, visits the house where Simon Bolivar, a leader of several independence movements in the 1800s throughout South America, was born in, in Caracas August 21, 2007. Relatives of Colombians kidnapped by Marxist guerrillas met on Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the left-wing leader vowed he would try to break a deadlock over releasing hostages.
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