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Echeverri, 28, has been in the United States for 16 months but still harbors hopes to return.
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Ramiro Echeverri was among 12 regional lawmakers the FARC kidnapped on April 11, 2002, in Cali, Colombia's third-largest city.
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Echeverri's son, also named Ramiro, was a doctor in Cali at the time.
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This was supposedly the first time the paramilitaries had shown such mobility, and the defence minister, Gilberto Echeverri, attempted to play down the significance of Mapiripan.
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They include Fabio Echeverri, who ran both his presidential campaigns.
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Lawyers for the brothers and Echeverri refused to comment.
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His newly appointed (and fourth) defence minister, Gilberto Echeverri, is considered better placed than most men in power to initiate a peace process, and has expressed his keenness to get talks going again.
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