But my physical resistance is flagging. Maria teresa mendieta said she has managed her husbands nine year absence with the help of psychotherapy and anti anxiety medication. After nine eight and seven years of captivity weve reached the conclusion that kidnappings suffering knows no limits mendieta wrote to caracol radio which broadcasts messages to the hostages every sunday morning. Mendieta was a police commander when guerrillas of the leftist revolutionary armed forces of colombia or farc overran his city on nov. But its not the physical pain that wounds us not the chains that we wear around our necks that torment us nor the incessant ailments that afflict us. They need to be freed now said the mendietas year old daughter jenny.