Former Colombian hostage Clara Rojas met today with her three-year-old son Emmanuel, born while she was a captive of the FARC rebel army but taken from her at eight months.
'They have met each other. It was a very emotional moment.' a government official said.
The meeting comes three days after the rebel group released politician Ms Rojas after holding her in the Colombian jungle for nearly six years.
Ms Rojas arrived in Bogota today, having been in Caracas since Thursday when Colombia's FARC rebels released her to the Venezuelan government and the Red Cross.
She landed in a Colombian air force plane at the Bogota military airport along with her mother and brother and was met at the airport by the government's peace commissioner, Luis Carlos Restrepo, and the director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute.
Before leaving Caracas, Ms Rojas expressed 'great emotion' about the prospect of her reunion with Emmanuel.
The ICBF directors said prior to Ms Rojas' arrival, Emmanuel had undergone psychological preparations for the emotional reunion with his mother.
Ms Rojas was kidnapped in February 2002 while managing the presidential campaign of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, who has remained in FARC's hands.
She became pregnant in a relationship with a FARC rebel and gave birth in a complicated caesarean section in which the baby broke an arm.
The guerrillas took the baby from her when he was eight-months-old and handed him to a caretaker, who eventually took the sick boy to a hospital before Colombian social services took custody of the child.
