Colombia: Agreement Is Reached to Release General Held by Rebels The country's largest rebel group has agreed to free an army general and four other captives, officials said Wednesday. The general's capture on Sunday led President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend peace talks with the rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The deal to free the general, Rubén Darío Alzate, was announced in Havana by representatives of the governments of Cuba and Norway, facilitators of the peace talks, held in Havana for the past two years. The announcement said that the Colombian government and the FARC had agreed on the conditions necessary for the captives" release and that they would be freed as soon as possible. The general will be released along with an army corporal and a military lawyer who were captured with him. Two other soldiers taken captive in a separate episode this month are also to be released, the officials said.