Former senator Piedad Córdoba died

Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, of the ruling Historical Pact, died this Saturday in Medellín at the age of 69, confirmed President Gustavo Petro.

«As a congressman I met her and as a senator she died. “A true liberal has died,” Petro said about Córdoba, of whom she said that “she was a woman beaten by an era and a society.”

In the first decade of this century, Piedad Córdoba, at the time a senator for the Liberal Party, served as a mediator, along with the then Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, for the release of several kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla. NEWS IN DEVELOPMENT