•Ecuadorian authorities apprehended two members of FARC during an operation in the south of Quito according to the Ministry of the Interior.
•El Espectador reports that they are reported to belong to the “Frente Sur” (South Front) of FARC, and authorities have requested fingerprints and other information to ascertain their identities.
•They are to be deported to Colombia and have been transported to the office of Migration in Quito.
•Although the authorities have not confirmed the exact identity of the two, it is presumed that one is the guerilla head Fabio A, who has connections with Ólidem Solarte, financial head of FARC with connections to the Mexican drug cartels. Read Article
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According to ElUniverso.com police arrested two members of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the southern Quicentro shopping mall in Quitumbe. The FARC members are identified as Andres Guaje Chala and Yanesi Hoyos Alarcon. Guaje is known as Favio Ramrez in the FARC organization and was 2nd in command of the frente […]
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•El Tiempo reports that Ecuadorian President Correa denounces the NGOs (non-governmental organizations), which are connected, with the extreme right of the U.S. are connected with FARC and other illegal groups on the Colombia – Ecuador Border. •He claims that these NGOs are attempting to replace the governments in that area. •He cites that of the […]
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ElComercio.com reports that President Juan Manuel Santos, today, rejected a decision made by an Ecuadorian court to call a trial of the Colombian security forces that were involved in the 2008 bombing of Angostura that ended with the death of FARC deputy chief, “Raul Reyes.” Santos says that the military took direct orders from him, […]
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•Óscar Fernando Cuevas Cepeda, a.k.a. the Colombian Cleaner, was considered the largest money launderer in Colombia and is to be extradited. •The accused has worked with the Cartels of Cali and Medellín as well as FARC and is known for his connection with Víctor Julio Suárez, the guerilla, alias “Mono Jojoy.” •The evidence includes 60 […]
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According to ElTelegrafo.com.ec police found a “long-range” weapon inside a house in the South of Quito on Thursday June 23rd. An agent says that the gun was a 182-caliber, an army issued rifle. Authorities say that the gun has a price of $80,000 on the black market. The gun is not identified as an Ecuadorian […]
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•As El Espectador.com reports, Edilberto Berrío Ortiz, Alejandro Palacios Rengifo, and Anderson Chamapuro Dogimara were found guilty by a New York judge for the kidnapping of a U.S. citizen in Panamá. •The three FARC guerrillas were arrested in Colombia in 2009 and extradited to the U.S. between 2010 and 2011. •The victim was freed after […]
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•After discovering another car bomb Monday night, the authorities evacuated nearby housings and schools in Corinto, Cauca. •El Espectador reports that the Colombian authorities have not yet attributed this car bomb, the second in the area within 3 days, to any specific group. •The ELN and FARC have guerrillas present in the area. Read Article
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•Rural farmers verified to El Espectador that in certain unnamed fields and greenhouses in Cali, a new kind of enhanced marijuana is being grown. •The marijuana has increased THC content, which allows for the drug’s effects to be enhanced. •Farmers have continued to cultivate the illicit crop because legal crops such as bananas and coffee […]
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•In the river Mataje in Tamaco, Nariño, Colombia, the Colombian Navy and the CTI destroyed a facility that constructed submarines and processed cocaine paste for the Daniel Aldana column of FARC. •Monthly the site would produce 1.5 tones of coca paste. •So far in 2011, the Naval Force of the Pacific has seized 40 laboratories […]
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Iñaki Domínguez Atxalandabaso is under investigation for his connection to the ETA and FARC, and is one of the most wanted terrorists by the Spanish police per elespectador.com. He was captured Thursday while heading to Paris from Milan, Italy. Read Article
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RCN Radio reports that Colombia’s Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera Salazar commented that FARC’s recent actions have been like those of Pablo Escobar. He makes this comment in relation to the methods of terrorism on civilians that FARC has utilized in response to successful actions against their operations. Read Article
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While performing a patrol in the area, two soldiers of the Brigada 27 de Selva died after entering a minefield attributed to FARC in Puerto Asís, Putumayo per radiocaracol.com.co. Read Article
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This morning in Puerto Rico, Caquetá, FARC’s Teófilo Forero launched a mortar and machine gun attack against the sixth Brigade of the Colombian army and a Police station leaving 2 civilians dead and 10 people injured according to El Espectador. Read Article
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During an operation intended to increase safety in Cali, the Colombian Police found six charges with 12 kg of explosives belonging to FARC’s frente 30 as El Espectador reports. FARC was planning an attack against the Fuerza Pública in different parts of Cali. Another operation successfully confiscated 153 bars of indugel to be used in […]
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A police patrol killed one soldier and wounded Army is a negative balance of the security forces clash with FARC guerrillas in the area known as the plane’s tail, jurisdiction Quilichao Santander, Cauca. Apparently, the insurgents sought to attack a base of the Pichincha Battalion, based in this population, when they were struck by patrol […]
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•Walter Hernández, alias “el Viejo,” was captured in El Doncello, Caquetá in Colombia according to El Periodiquito. •Hernández is one of the main heads of FARC’s “Teófilo Forero” column which operates in Caquetá and Huila. •The captured workers of Chinese Sinochem and British Emeral Energy have been identified as Zhau Hong, Yang Jing and Tang […]
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Rcn Radio reports that Angelino Garzón, Vice-president of Colombia, warns the kidnappers, believed to be FARC, that the government is doing everything possible to locate the Chinese workers and that they should release them as soon as possible. Garzón also denounces the murder of judge Margarita de las Salas Bacca in north Barranquilla and called […]
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•As reported by elespectador.com, the British oil company Emerald Energy released a statement recognizing that the four workers of Chinese descent were kidnapped in San Vicente del Caguan yesterday and that the company is putting forth an emergency plan in response to the situation. •It appears that FARC is responsible for the kidnappings. •The statement […]
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Colombia launched a major military and police operation Thursday to try to rescue four Chinese oil workers abducted by suspected leftist guerrillas in a remote southern jungle region. A land and air operation was under way around the town of San Vicente del Caguan, a longtime stronghold of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia […]
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According to Eltiempo.com, three Chinese nationals working for the multinational oil company Emerald Energy were kidnapped along with his translator, yesterday (Tuesday) at 2:30 pm in a rural area of the municipality of San Vicente (Caquetá). The four employees were traveling with their driver in a pickup truck 4 x 4 when they were detained […]
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•Three young natives, two of them minors, turned themselves in to the Colombian military last week in Inzá, Cauca per servindi.org/actualidad/46107. •The three indigenous youths reported that within the last two months, FARC has recruited 15 minors between the ages of 12 and 15 with recruitment focusing on the areas of Toribío, Corinto, La Caldera, […]
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•Luz Agüelo, from San Francisco, Antioquia, Colombia was forced into the ELN and trained as a nurse among other occupational skills needed by the group. •They would take children to join their organization and escaped according to desentranando-colombia.periodismohumano.com. •San Francisco, Antioquia is one of the places most heavily afflicted by the armed conflict. •According to […]
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•In cooperative effort, the antidrug police, the Army, and the Colombian Air Force found and destroyed 14 tons of marijuana ready to be packaged, which were valued at 35 billion pesos, in La María, Torbio, Cauca as reported by elespectador.com. •The marijuana belonged to Miguel Ángel Pascuas Santos, alias “el sargento Pascuas”, who is the […]
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•After 120 Facebook accounts created threatened her death as well as harassment through, Colombian ex senator Piedad Córdoba plans to remove her children from Colombia in the next few days for their safety per eltiempo.com. •She has been an activist for human rights within prisons and was also part of mediation with FARC to free […]
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When she hears a helicopter, Tatiana Sinisterra’s instinct is to dive. During her two years as a rebel fighter, she would throw herself into trenches during bombing raids by Colombia’s military. But on a recent morning, Sinisterra voluntarily got on a military helicopter headed for southwestern Colombia. Read Article
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Leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC continue their cat-and-mouse battles, in the nation’s almost five-decade-old conflict. “It’s tough fighting in all this mud,” a guerrilla named “Adrian” says. Flinching with every shot he or his comrades fired, he explained that “This is to slow the army’s advance. Within two or three days […]
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Villavicencio. In the last few hours, two members of the first Farc, decided to escape from his terrorist organization to voluntarily surrender to Army troops in the department of Vaupés. Voluntary surrender occurred in an area known as Pucaron Carurú Township, where soldiers are deployed Forest Battalion 52 `No Coronel José Dolores Solano ‘Brigade No […]
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Neiva. The fighting yesterday between troops of the Ground Combat Battalion No. 37, organic Brigade No. 29 and the sixth terrorist Farc allowed to expose the massive recruitment that would be suffered by indigenous people living in councils of the department of Cauca, limits to the west of Huila. The incident took place in an […]
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•The United Nations’ Office of Human Rights in Colombia condemned the attacks led by the ELN and FARC as serious violations of human rights norms according to radiosantafe.com. •Christian Salazar, the representative of the High Commissioner of the UN for Human rights stresses that among these violations are homicides, indiscriminate attacks, and forced displacement. Read […]
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•Elespectador.com reports that Guillermo Enrique Torres, alias Julián Conrado and “el cantante de las FARC” was captured this Tuesday in Barinas, Venezuela. •President Hugo Chavez assures that Torres will be handed over to Colombian authorities as the processes are being carried out. Read Article
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•Donay Correa Londoño and Guillermo Roldá Correa, both candidates for the Mayor of Campamento, were shot and killed by FARC’s frente 36 in the North of Antioquia according to rcnradio.com. •This makes 3 assassinated candidates for mayors of municipalities so far in 2011 in the north of Antioquia. •There have also been attempts against candidates […]
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This Saturday, a FARC minefield left 1 soldier dead and 4 others injured of the Batallón Numancia as revealed by elespectador.com. The Comando Pacífico blames the guerrillas of FARC’s Frente 30 for the incident in Los Robles in the municipality Buenos Aires in Cauca, Colombia known for its rebel presence. Read Article
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Including 500 civilian deaths, 20,000 people have fallen victim to FARC in the last 47 years as reported by rcnradio.com. According to the Fundación Victimas del Terrorismo en Colombia, the areas with the most registered kidnappings are Antioquia, Chocó, Meta and Santander. The foundation will ask the government to provide more resources to victims of […]
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About 52,419 deserted guerrilla groups in the Andean nation from 2003 to 2010. Read Article
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•Jhon Freddy Acevado, spokesperson of Carmen del Atrato, reported that 3 men, 2 of which former members of the Ejército Revolucionario Guevarista (ERG), were shot dead by front 34 per eltiempo.com. •They have been identified as Fabio Nelson, Saúl Caro, and Esneider (whose surname is unknown); Caro and Esneider are disbanded members of the ERG […]
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Elespectador.com reports that Tuesday night, members of the Armed Forces, Air Force and Navy transported 120 people previously under FARC’s control to Quibdó from Las Mercedes in Chocó. The pressure from the military seems to have convinced FARC to release these individuals. Read Article
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•Admiral Edgar Cely contradicts the report made by Father Constantino García on Monday that the people are being used as human shields to block the Atrato river per elespectador.com. •He declared that the commando Conjunto Caribe and Division 7 would move to Quibdó to ensure the safety of the Atrato river and the surrounding people. […]
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As the anniversary of FARC’s creation draws near, a series of captures has been taking place as part of an “armed strike” as announced by pamphlets distributed by the groups per radiosantafe.com. Today, 143 people who travelled through the Atrado River in the Chocó department of Colombia were detained by FARC. The group is keeping […]
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•Caracol.com.co reveals that Lenín Moreno, Ecuador’s Vice President, denied the accusation that Correa’s campaign received money from FARC, and was willing to undergo a polygraph test to prove the validity of his statement. •He also expressed that FARC no longer displays the qualities of a revolutionary group. •El Espectador reported yesterday that U.S. diplomatic cables […]
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•The second such attack on this kind of helicopter in the area, it resulted in the death of a police officer, 2 injured civilians and the theft of an unspecified millionaire sum according to elpais.com.co. •Authorities did not reveal the exact amount, but the shipment is known to be a consignment of money of businessmen. […]
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•Laradiodelsur.com reports that Carlos Lozano, the director of the magazine Voz de Colombia, stresses that four other deaths are being investigated in the place where Argimiro Hernández was killed in the Tolima department. •Lozana describes that Alfonso Cano, leader of FARC, performs operations in the site at the entrance of the Cañon de las Hermosas […]
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The video from elpais.com.co reveals a military operation in which, after being attack by members of the Sixth Front of FARC, military personnel search a rural estate in Caloco, Cauca to find ammunition, explosives and other weapons to be used by FARC.
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•On the grounds that the chain of custody was not followed, the files and emails lack legal sustainability according to the Supreme Court. •The discovery of these emails led to the investigations of the connection between FARC and leftist political leaders, journalists, and intellectuals. •The court has filed the processes being carried out for “Farc-política” […]
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When Meredith Aby met with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 2006, she asked what it would take to get them to stop fighting. Jess Sundin did the same during her trip to Colombia 11 years ago.They returned and openly wrote and spoke about their experiences, while criticizing the U.S. government’s involvement […]
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•On Monday at 10:00 p.m., the two officers, Nelson Enrique Larrea Fernández and Edwin Cuero Rojas, were seriously injured when they were ambushed and attacked with 40 millimeter grenades and rifle shots from a hill as revealed by elpais.com.co. •They were headed towards Todos Los Santos in San Pedro, Valle del Cauca to check on […]
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Prosecutors in Ecuador have said allegations that President Rafael Correa’s election campaign accepted funds from Colombian rebels in 2006 will be investigated. Read Article
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•Deputy Carlos Humberto Osorio Monrroy reported that the department was again in a state of apprehension per elespectador.com. •Such events as kidnappings, bombings, and the setting of a curfew in five municipalities have incited fear in the department. •In the area of los Llanos Orientales, there seems to be an alliance between the bacrim organizations […]
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Ecuador’s president says he’s prepared to submit to a lie-detector test to prove he didn’t accept money from Colombia’s FARC rebels in his 2006 election campaign. Read Article
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A report of three rifles missing from military barracks triggered the investigation into a former Salvadoran army officer who pleaded guilty this week in the United States to federal terrorism charges, officials in this Central American country said Thursday. Hector Antonio Martinez-Guillen, 32, acknowledged Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Virginia that he sold […]
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The release Tuesday of a “dossier” of Farc files, which were supposedly seized by the Colombian government in 2008, is truly a non-event. The report, by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), appears to be an attempt by hawks in the US and the UK to perpetuate, using “black propaganda”, the failed policies of […]
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Insurgent Alias “Pingüino” of FARC Is Captured • The CIT and Joint Comando of the Pacific captured the insurgent planning to harm members of the armed forces and civilians believed to be head of the militia of the Sixth Front of FARC per elpais.com.co . • He stands accused of an ambush on a patrol […]
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Confiscation of 272 kilos of Cocaine in Las Delicias, Buenaventura, Colombia According to elpais.com.co , when 2 men in a motorboat in the Colombian Pacific detected the presence of the authorities, they fled to the swamps leaving behind ten containers of high quality cocaine. This represents a joint operation between the National Police, Fluvial Brigade, […]
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Two Cylinder Bombs Disabled in Puerto Rico, Caquetá, Colombia • Per report by rcnradio.com , explosives specialists of the army successfully deactivated two cylinder bombs containing 40 kilos of ammonium nitrate. • Colonel Wilson Camargo reports that the bombs were part of an offensive of “Teófilo Forero Castro” a mobile column of FARC against the […]
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President Correa denied receiving money from the FARC for his campaign in 2006, according to a statement released yesterday, which referred to an analysis of computer equipment of former number two of the Colombian guerrilla, Raúl Reyes. Read Article
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Business Transactions Between FARC and Correa and Deposit of $400,000 Per report by eltiempo.com , a study of archives by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) has revealed two drafts that FARC and associates made to Jorge Brito to aid the Correa campaign in 2006. In a document reviewed by the IISS, the Electoral […]
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Pro-FARC Website Appears To Be Disabled The Swedish based Colombian news agency, anncol.eu , has been suspended. It has been known for its pro-FARC stance.
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As Makled was handed over today to Venezuela by Colombian forces. Elespectador.com reported that he left behind a recording stating that he had proof, including video, of the involvement of Chavez and other Venezuelan officials. He expressed willingness to present this proof before the International Criminal Court. Makled professes that there is a route used […]
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Sweden should explain why a Swedish citizen accused of being a FARC rebel agent was allowed to leave the European country even though Colombia had an order out for his arrest, Venezuela’s foreign minister said Friday. Read Article
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The Nukak-Maku tribe, nomads discovered only 23 years ago who number no more than 600, is struggling to adapt after Colombian guerrillas chased them from their homes deep inside the country’s lush tropical forests. “Llego la plata” (“the money is coming”), someone murmured from inside a palm leaf hut crowded with 10 adults and two […]
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After the killing, the guerrillas mounted next to the bodies a minefield to try to kill the patrols to try to recover the bodies. Near the gorge Taques in Toledo (Antioquia), were found shot in the head with the corpses of two soldiers kidnapped last Monday by the front 36 of the Farc in the […]
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Efren Meneses Hector Yela is trusted man Calle Antonio Javier Serna, better known as the “Fighter” and head of the criminal gang Los Rastrojos, who also established a criminal alliance with the FARC. Caracol Radio reported, the drug had arrested more than two decades devoted to organized crime. As heir to the criminal, Serna Street […]
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Battalion ‘Juanambú’, belonging to the XII Brigade of the Army, defused in a controlled manner a house-bomb had been placed by FARC guerrillas in the village of redfish, a rural area of San José del Fragua, south of Caquetá . General Fabricio Cabrera Ortiz, commander of the XII Brigade of the Army, said the guerrillas […]
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Female Colombian snipers suspected of belonging to the Marxist guerilla group FARC are fighting as mercenaries defending Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, according to rebel forces. Read Article
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The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ecuador will investigate the veracity of a recently publicized WikiLeaks cable that claims Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa received campaign funding from the FARC and Venezuela, El Espectador reported Friday. Read Article
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The Colombian authorities captured one of the political leaders of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) known by the alias “Simon Bernart ‘, official sources said. Troops of the fifth division of the Army of Colombia guerrilla arrested in the southwestern department of Tolima and, according to security agencies, the rebel had direct […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, confirmed that Spain offered a radar in 2008 to control the border after Colombia’s attack on a FARC base in its territory, but on condition that coordinates with the Colombian armed forces, so rejected it. The offer was disclosed today in a leaked cable from WikiLeaks to Ecuadorian newspaper […]
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Lara Muñoz Gemner alias ‘Lucio 40’ accused of being the leader of the FARC’s Front 22, which operates in La Macarena and Vistahermosa, – was arrested by the Police Sijin in suburbs of the capital of Meta, near of a chain store on the road that leads to Catama. Read Article
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The inhabitants of the districts described as disturbing the affected security in the area, due to the presence of the guerrillas. “Since last year, when he left here the Mobile Brigade 20, the FARC came back and now feel very afraid,” said one citizen, who preferred anonymity. Read Article
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A serious terrorist threat to the town of Tello, denounced the mayor of the town, Lácides Díaz. Diaz revealed that the front 17 of the Farc extorting builders of a school in the town, in the north of Huila. Read Article
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A dynamite attack on the FARC guerrillas in Colombia’s northern border with Venezuela cut off supplies of gas from the first country to second by the product binational Antonio Ricaurte, said Sunday the regional authorities. The blast, followed by a fire , occurred on Saturday night Carraipía rural, village border town of Maicao, in the […]
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The Unit for Combating Organized Crime (Ulco) on Sunday found 100 boxes of dynamite inside a truck whose destination is presumed were the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). As a result of operating three people were arrested. Read Article
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The capture was made by the police and the army on Thursday night in the village of La Selva, the municipality of Rovira, located one hour by car from Ibague. This is Rubiela Mary Rubio and her husband Gualteros Argemiro Mendoza Cuellar. Read Article
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Colombia has used unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, since 2006 to detect movement of the FARC and drug shipments, according to a leaked official cable published by WikiLeaks. One of the systems mentioned is the ScanEagle of Boeing. The document collected by the newspaper El Espectador, said that unmanned aerial systems arrived in the country in […]
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Colombian troops have freed all but one of the 23 local oil contractors working for Canadian operator Talisman Energy, who were snatched a day earlier by suspected FARC rebels, authorities said on Tuesday. Read Article
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Suspected FARC guerrillas have kidnapped 23 local oil contractors carrying out exploration work in a remote jungle area of Colombia for Canada’s Talisman Energy Inc, authorities said on Monday.Read Article
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nfodefensa.com) By P. Palacios, Lima – members active and retired Air Force and the Peruvian army were involved in a network of illegal arms from different quarters for Peruvians and narco-terrorist organization called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo (FARC_EP). The research was conducted by the Third Provincial Criminal Prosecutor Lima Supra merit […]
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Three suspected militants captured, apparently, gave support to the front of the FARC Magdalena. Detectives of the Administrative Security Department, assigned to the Branch Santander Bolivar, supported by troops from the Army and Navy captured three suspected militants of the FARC. Read Article
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A former guerrillas used as a “model” of the FARC printed propaganda was arrested in the last hours by the Colombian authorities in the city of Pereira (west), reported the Department of Administrative Security (DAS .) This is Jhasmit Andrea Moncada Vélez, alias “Feliener” or “Cat” and former member of Aurelio Rodriguez against the Revolutionary […]
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday that e-mails of Mono Jojoy, a former and dead leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), have showed an increase of killings within the guerrilla group for desertions. Read Article
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The Colombian government’s greater openness to dialogue and the recent release of hostages by that country’s FARC guerrillas have created a climate in which it is possible to move in the direction of a negotiated solution to an armed conflict that has dragged on for nearly half a decade. Read Article
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Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said this week that military forces know the exact hiding place and movements of the FARC guerrilla maximum leader, Alfonso Cano, and brushed aside any chance that he might escape. Read Article
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Fighting between the Colombian rebel group FARC and the drug gang “Los Rastrojos” left at least 15 people dead, authorities said Friday. Read Article
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday condemned the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the rebel group’s kidnapping of two people on Wednesday evening after it released one hostage.Santos said that the new kidnapping even made him consider stopping the plan of FARC on the release of four more hostages still kept by […]
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The messages are heard again in the Ecuadorian province of Sucumbios border. The armed group makes the invitations through the radio “Voice of the Resistance ‘, said Saturday the Ecuadorian newspaper’ The Universo ‘ “In a few weeks the station has penetrated guerrilla clearly in villages that are located along the border,” he says. Read […]
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According to Julio César Vidal leaders of these bands are willing to deliver weapons, roads and crops, even to extradite them if necessary. Bishop statements came during the inauguration of the National Assembly of Bishops, which will run until Friday. Read Article
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The Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, just ordered the suspension of military operations for 36 hours in an area south of the country to facilitate the operation of the release of the president’s Council of San Jose del Guaviare, Mark Baquero. Read Article
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Six Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrillas turned themselves in voluntarily to army troops in a rural area in the southern province of Caqueta, the army said Sunday. Read Article
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Colombian troops found a cache of the FARC in the jungles of the southern department of Putumayo, bordering with Ecuador, which had nearly a ton of explosives, officials said. Read Article
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A new battalion of 600 men, come to reinforce the fight against the FARC in Huila. This is the ground combat battalion No. 13 ‘Cacique Timanco’, said General Henry Torres, commander of the Ninth Brigade. Read Article
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The strategy of bomb attacks against troops allowed the FARC to hit back on the tracks of Arauca, where the guerrilla group is still strong and ahead of a rebel offensive which has alerted the armed forces. They warn analysts on security issues after the attack occurred at dawn yesterday against an army patrol that […]
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A total of fifty kilos of explosives were found by police officers in a vehicle that was abandoned on a road in township Caguan rural area of Neiva. Read Article
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Ecuador has established two new military bases along the border with Colombia. They are designed to provided more security for Ecuadorian residents and to monitor guerrilla activity. Read Article
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Facundo Barfield has been linked to FARC since 2003, according to authorities. Tuesday was revealed the identity of other foreigners who are active within FARC. Facundo Barfield, an Argentine who joined the FARC since 2003, listed in order of battle of the mobile column Teofilo Forero. Read Article
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The commander of the XIV Brigade, Colonel Edgar Copola, confirmed that in the morning the FARC guerrillas triggered a truck bomb in Union Bridge, which connects the town with the town of Amalfi, Antioquia, Medellin was affecting mobility and the move to the dam Porce III. Read Article
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WHEN last September government forces seized computer hard drives and memory sticks belonging to “Mono Jojoy”, the military commander of the FARC who was killed in an assault on his camp, officials said they had struck a gold mine of information about the inner workings of Colombia’s main guerrilla group. It turned out that they […]
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Colombia on Monday identified three airports from which will come from and where will the helicopters with the humanitarian mission to receive the five hostages FARC guerrillas agreed to release, and said they are given all the security . Read Article
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