The World - News from July 17, 1989

The brother-in-law of Venezuela’s president was reported kidnaped in Colombia while another group released the nephew of Colombia’s interior minister after 85 days in captivity, authorities said in Bogota. Authorities blamed the rebel National Liberation Army in the Friday night kidnaping of wealthy Venezuelan rancher Noberto Rodriguez, who was visiting a farm in northeastern Colombia. He is the brother-in-law of Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez and formerly served as a Venezuelan consular officer in Colombia. In Cali, 200 miles southwest of Bogota, Jaime Correa, a lawyer and notary public who is a nephew of Minister Raul Orejuela Bueno, was freed by members of the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan guerrilla group, family members said.