Estas tres personas son los contratistas estadounidenses Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell y Marc Gonsalves, secuestrados el 12 de febrero de 2003 luego de que la avioneta en el que viajaban fuera derribada por las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) en la selva colombiana.

Estas tres personas son los contratistas estadounidenses Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell y Marc Gonsalves, secuestrados el 12 de febrero de 2003 luego de que la avioneta en el que viajaban fuera derribada por las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) en la selva colombiana.

One of the contractors taken hostage by the FARC, Thomas Howes, addressed this obstacle in a 2014 written statement to the US House Financial Services Committee: "The FARC itself has no blocked assets in the US, never has and likely never will. [Foreign terrorist organizations] simply do not open ...

American pilot Thomas Jannis was shot in the head, and the Colombian intelligence officer who was accompanying them, Luis Alcides Cruz, was shot at close range in the abdomen. The three surviving Americans — Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes — were marched into a jungle nightmare ...

U.S. citizens Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell were taken hostage by the FARC and freed by the Colombian army. ... The Colombian government refused Wednesday to extradite a FARC rebel who stands accused of kidnapping three U.S. contractors, in a sign of changing relations ...

A Colombian man who played a role in holding three Americans hostage for five years in the jungle was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three decades in federal ... The three Americans -- Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell, and Marc Gonsalves — were working as contractors for the Defense Department on a ...

Before they could stagger out from the wreckage, retired Marine Keith Stansell, former Air Force analyst Marc Gonsalves and retired airline pilot Thomas Howes were captured by Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), the truculent, drug-trafficking guerrillas who have terrorized the region for ...

Indeed, Mr. Stansell and his co-authors, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves, offer a far different portrait of Ms. Betancourt in the 457-page book than the generally accepted image of her outside Colombia as a long-suffering abduction victim who nobly resisted her captors since her kidnapping in 2002.

... they were in Colombia conducting counter-narcotics operations for the American government when their plane went down in the jungle. NPR's Wade Goodwyn has the story of the rescue. WADE GOODWYN: The planning for the rescue began after the three Americans - Mark Gonsalves, Thomas Howes ...

Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell arrived there late Wednesday on an Air Force C-17 to undergo a battery of medical tests and debriefings. All three are U.S. government contractors who were captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in February 2003 when ...