Colombia

Senior Chinese military official to visit Cuba

October 23, 2011

Via Xinhuanet: Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, General Guo Boxiong left Beijing today to pay official goodwill visits to Cuba, Colombia and Peru. Guo was invited by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Colombia’s Defense Ministry and Peru’s Defense Ministry. Guo will meet state and military leaders and visit the armed forces and [...]

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Extradition of ETA suspect from Cuba

October 18, 2011

Via AFP: Spain will request the extradition from Cuba of an alleged member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who allegedly sought explosives training from Colombian rebel group FARC. Venezuelan authorities detained Jose Ignacio Echarte and two other suspected ETA members in August after the boat they were in ran aground on the Venezuelan island of Los [...]

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State Sponsor of Terrorism: Cuba

August 18, 2011

The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism released today its annual Country Reports on Terrorism for 2010. Cuba is listed in Chapter 3 — State Sponsors of Terrorism with the following entry: Overview: Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1982, the Government of Cuba maintained a public stance against terrorism [...]

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Former Cuban agents are members of EPR

June 1, 2010

A leftist guerrilla movement responsible for many kidnappings and attacks inside Mexico is secretly receiving funding from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The group, called the Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR), is “a terrorist organization bent on destabilizing Mexico…Splinters of the group are also adding to the problem,” said a Mexican official who requested anonymity, reports the [...]

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FARC moves freely in Cuba and Venezuela

May 19, 2010

Colombia’s intelligence service, Administrative Department of Security—DAS  (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad—DAS), produced a secret report revealing the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—FARC’s movements in various foreign countries, reports El Espectador. The report presents evidence that the FARC moves freely in Cuba and Venezuela with precise information on guerrilla camps and supposed alliances to export the Bolivarian project [...]

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Narcotrafficking or death

April 29, 2010

Italian journalist and international criminal issues expert Luca Rastello has written the book, Yo Soy el Mercado: Teoría, Métodos y Estilo de Vida del Perfecto Narcotraficante (I Am the Market: Theory, Method and Lifestyle of the Perfect Narcotrafficker), that details the ingenious strategies Colombian and Mexican narcotraffickers have implemented for years to grow their business in [...]

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