Showing posts with label Colombia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colombia. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2015

Colombia: Colombia will extradit FARC leader , while investigating possible violation of ceasefire

The Colombian government authorized the extradition to The United States of the guerrilla leader of the FARC, Eduardo Cabrera alias El Cura requierd by a court of the district of New York for the crimes of drug trafficking.

El Cura was a mid-level commander of the Southern Block of the guerrilla group FARC, according to the authorities.

The charges brought against him are “conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and to manufacture and distribute cocaine with the knowledge and intent that the substance would be imported to the United States.” (colombia reports.co)
The insurgent was arrested in November 2013 in the southern department of Caquetá , in a joint operation of the Office, Army and Police. Cabrera is accused of being the link of the Southern Block of the FARC drug trafficking, and US officials blame the shipping of more than 500 thousand kilograms of cocaine to the US market .



Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Colombia: Santos sends military aides to negociate FARC ceasefires

President Juan Manuel Santos, will send a top delegation of military corps to negotiate a formal ceasefire with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Santos said during a forum for Colombia's peace celebrated in Madrid, that there will be traveling six persons from the military.

After more than two years of conversations with unevenness among Bogota and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cuba, agreements have been reached in three points: agricultural development, political participation of the guerrillas and drug trafficking cease. 

Nevertheless, there still remain two of the most delicate aspects. "We agreed that there will be discussed simultaneously the victims topic, transitional justice, which is the major issue, and the fifth point that is in fact, the cease of the conflict by a DDR: disarmament, demobilization and reimbursement" of the guerrilla to civil life, he explains.

" The cessation the definitive fire has to be negotiated under a few very clear rules, is a complex topic ", he has affirmed. For this motive " we have decided that they should be the own active military men  those who negotiate in Havana"  said the president, assuring to have informed the armed forces about the whole process of peace " inclusive in the secret phase ".


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