Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has suspended peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels after an army general was kidnapped. <br /><br />General Ruben Dario Alzate was captured on a river near the city of Quibdo after getting off a boat.<br /><br />Another military official and a lawyer were also abducted. One soldier managed to escape and inform authorities.<br /><br />Santos’s government and FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, have been working towards a bilateral cease-fire and disarming of the rebel group.<br /><br />The military was handling the logistics of the militant disarmament.<br /><br />Although nobody has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, the president had warned FARC that it risked jeopardising the peace process after two soldiers were abducted last week.
