FARC guerrillas on Wednesday postponed releasing six Colombian soldiers held for over a decade, claiming that the area where the prisoners were to be freed has been occupied by government troops. “The area we had chosen for the release of prisoners of war captured in battle has been unfairly militarized by the Government of Colombia, [...]
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Colombia’s government today praised U.S. support for strengthening systems of technical (Sigint) and human intelligence (Humint) in the fight against illegal organizations like FARC operating in this South American country. “With the support of the U.S. government we are strengthening our systems of technical and human intelligence,” said Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, through a [...]
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Air operations in a wide region of southwestern Colombia were delayed on Saturday following an attack by FARC guerrillas against a radar antenna system key to commercial aviation, said that nation’s Civil Aviation authority. One policeman was killed in the attack by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) launched on Friday night above [...]
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Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday rejected the possibility of reopening peace talks with that country’s FARC leftist rebels, until the group takes concrete steps towards ending 50 years of combat. His reaction came one day after FARC leader Rodrigo “Timochenko” Londoño suggested terms for resuming negotiations, which were frozen a decade ago. Those [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this week appointed a new defense minister, described by the United States as a “drug kingpin” involved in cocaine smuggling from next-door Colombia. “This good soldier, this humble soldier … this fighter for the people, today I publicly designate him as the new defense minister of the Republic,” Chavez announced while [...]
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FARC guerrillas are “the only ones responsible” for the death of four hostages found shot this weekend after a firefight with government troops trying to free them, according to Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. “This is an atrocious crime which merits the condemnation of all Colombians as well as the international community”, he said during [...]
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Rodrigo Londoño, alias “Timoleón Jiménez” or “Timochenko,” has been promoted to the rank of commander for the FARC guerrilla movement, shortly after the Colombian military tracked down and killed its leader Alfonso Cano. In a press release, the FARC Secretariat said Timochenko’s appointment was unanimous and that it remains committed to toppling the Colombian government. [...]
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The death last week of Alfonso Cano, who replaced Manuel “Sure Shot” Marulanda as head of the Colombian FARC in 2008, leaves a historic vacuum at the top of Latin America’s most long-lived guerrilla movement. Cano, 63, was considered the principal ideologue of the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, having dominated their political wing before [...]
In another setback for Latin America’s oldest guerrilla army, FARC rebel leader Guillermo Leon Saenz was killed in Colombia on Friday. According to Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, Saenz, who was better known by his battle moniker Alfonso Cano, was tracked down in the southern department of Cauca. He had already been on the run [...]
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Another ten Colombian soldiers have been killed in a rebel ambush, this time in the eastern province of Arauca. It was the second such attack in two days. On Friday, a similar ambush left 10 soldiers dead in the southern province of Narino, close to Colombia’s border with Ecuador. The army blamed both attacks on [...]
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