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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Former President Alvaro Uribe has addressed a letter to The Washington Post in response to an article that alleged that the U.S. aid to fight drug trafficking and guerrilla in Colombia has been misused by the government of Alvaro Uribe to spy and smear judges and opposition groups in the country. The former President, who said he [...]
The long term U.S.-funded counterinsurgency campaign against the narco guerrilla FARC are viewed as so successful that it has become a model for strategy in Mexico, Afghanistan and other countries.But The Washington Post on Sunday publish alleged revelations about what happened during the two terms of the former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the [...]
Venezuelan authorities this year have destroyed 17 drug processing laboratories in the border with Colombia that had the capacity to produce three tons of cocaine a month, said on Wednesday the venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Tarek El Aissami to reporters during a tour of the town of La Fria, Tachira in the state, bordering [...]
Bogota – Colombian Army troops killed the security chief of the main commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in a move that represents a breakthrough for the government in its war against leftist insurgent group FARC, that has operated for decades in the country, officials said on Saturday. Alirio Rojas, known as [...]
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said FARC leaders Pablo Catatumbo and a commander with alias Romana have serious health problems, and called for the narcoterrorists to demobilize. Catatumbo is wanted by the U.S. government accused of cocaine trafficking. Santos, who cited intercepted e-mails from the group, known as the FARC, said a member with the [...]
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe has fiercely criticized his successor Juan Manuel Santos for recognizing that Colombia has been facing an “armed conflict” rather than a “terrorist threat.” Santos decided to change the rhetoric from that of his predecessor in order to give legal shape to the compensation of victims of violence by guerrillas, paramilitary [...]
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