📆 On This Day in 1958 📆
Juan Manuel Fangio was kidnapped before the Cuban GP. Two gunmen associated with Fidel Castro entered his Havana hotel and took him at gunpoint. They wanted the race to be cancelled to put pressure on President Fulgencio Batista, but the race went ahead and Fangio was allowed by his captors to listen to it on the radio. He was released after 29 days and the Cuban Revolution took place a year later.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Two suspects in the kidnapping of the parents of Liverpool soccer player Luis Díaz were ordered sent to prison by a judge, Colombia’s Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday, accusing one of the men of being the link to a person close to the family who provided information about the victims.
Andrés Alcires Bolívar and Marlon Rafael Brito are also accused of maintaining contacts with members of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, in the planning and execution of the Oct. 28 abductions in Barrancas, a town in La Guajira in Colombia’s northeast of Colombia.
Díaz’s parents - Luis Manuel Díaz Jiménez and Cilenis Marulanda — were kidnapped by a unit of the ELN at a gas station by armed men on motorcycles.
