Posts Tagged ‘farc’
U.S. Says Chiquita Banana is a Terrorist
2:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · business|Colombia · 2 Comments
14 Mar 2007
Seems like Ms. Chiquita Banana was packing more than fruit in her sombrero, at least according to U.S. Federal prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors said the company and several unnamed high-ranking corporate officers did business with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. The group is described in court documents as a violent right-wing organization that the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization.
The company also did business with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, according to prosecutors.
Montesinos sentenced to 20 years
12:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Peru|Politics · Comments Off
22 Sep 2006
Ex Fujimori aide and Laura Bozzo’s ex-boyfriend, Vladimiro Montesinos, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for allegedly selling arms to Colombia’s FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), according to Spain’s 20 Minutos:
This sentence, which follows 12 other sentences since Montesinos was detained in Venezuela in June of 2001, is the longest and is the one that he must serve out, since in Peru sentences are not culmulative.
Apparently, Montesinos procured the arms from Jordan, and sold them to the FARC, “committing crimes of violation of a foreign state’s sovereignty, political conspiracy, and illegal supplying of arms to subversive groups.”
Meanwhile, Montesinos’s ex main squeeze will gets 4 years of her own on a variety of charges.
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