Galway 21 février 2004
1st International Hostages' Day

Saturday was very beautiful day, even when it was extremely cold, it was sunny. So, when the people passed walking and they saw the posters, and half of the poster were the picture of the las voces del secuestro website, with the hands tide with a strong chains meaning the involuntary lack of freedom; the stop and they read the small stories of each posters. The people identified them selves with the hostages, because of the age, occupation, genre… and

We got 60 letters:

7 letters to Ingrid Betancourt

4 letters to Clara Rojas

4 letters to Marco Aurelio Garcia Gonzalez

5 letters to Leidy Carolina Yaya Gomez

4 letters to Delio Arango Maya

3 letters to Hernan Aguilera Agudelo

3 letters to Jose Elias Herrero Pinto

3 letters to Juan Diego Estrada Cadavid

7 letters to Claudia Patricia Vargas

4 letters to Carmenza Suarez de la Cruz

9 letters to the family of Delio Arango Maya

2 letters to the family of Leidy Carolina Yaya Gomez

1 letter to the family of Carmenza Suarez de la Cruz

8 letters to the family of Claudia Patricia Vargas

Many thanks to the staff of the Amnesty International shop who was very supportive and kind.

At the Amnesty International Shop :
Marie-Anne Michel, Elsa Clavel and Kelcey Lastiwka.

Abhay Pandit, chair person of Amnesty International community group in Galway, and Matt Wallen, a US teacher

Chelo Alfonso, a well known activist in Galway, specially in Latinamerican, Travellers and women issues.

...as well as many other visitors