Suspected Colombian rebel arrested in Venezuela

[EFerrari]

Source: Sun Star

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Venezuelan authorities deported to Colombia a man believed to be a member of Colombia's largest guerrilla group, officials said Friday.

The man, Yeiner Esneider Acosta Pena, was deported to Colombia on Thursday night, telling Colombian authorities that he wanted to leave his rebel group, said Henry Corredor, director of Colombia's DAS state security agency in the neighboring Guajira region.

A suspected member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Acosta was arrested for possessing a false Venezuelan identification card, said Odalis Caldera, public security director in Venezuela's western Zulia state.

Police were alerted to his whereabouts by an anonymous telephone call and arrested Acosta on Wednesday, she said.

Read more: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/network/suspected-colombian-rebel-arrested-venezuela-231-pm

[ck4829]

1. They just didn't kill 15 farmers and say they killed 15 guerrillas? Colombia went up a notch.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Colombian drug lord backed Uribe? (Different guy, should be noted, however)

Colombian drug lord backed Uribe?
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:10:44 GMT

Former Colombian paramilitary chief and drug lord, Diego Murillo testified in a US court that he financed President Uribe's election campaign.

Diego Murillo was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years in prison and fined four million dollars for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States.

After the trial, Murillo's Colombian defense attorneys approached Ivn Cepeda, spokesman for the Movement of Victims of Crimes of the State (MOVICE), and told him that their client had asked that his support for Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe be explicitly included in his court statement.

They also told Cepeda that Murillo was prepared to elaborate, before the Colombian justice system, on his allegations that incriminated Uribe, and to present proof, and said they hoped that this could be done as soon as possible.

More:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92383§ionid=351020703

[EFerrari]

3. Omg. Everything they say about Chavez REALLY IS true of Uribe!

Thanks, Judi Lynn. That's huge.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Maybe the truth will become publicly acknowledged now he doesn't have his big right-wing pal

to protect him.

Sending the BIG killers out of the country was one way of keeping them from having to answer to the Colombian public for those thousands of their loved ones they had wiped out in massacres. The relatives and friends of their victims have been crying out for justice, wanting to know the details like "where is my son's/brother's/husband's body buried?" By shipping them to the U.S. for a lesser trial, on narcotrafficking actually protects them from the mass murder prosecution which should be conducted by the Colombian government. People have known about the ties between Uribe and Uribe's father going back for decades. He's always been connected to these scums.

I'll bet he in no way expected this guy to start saying things like this about him. This is completely unexpected. Maybe the man started getting homesick, or maybe it started grating on him that Uribe was STILL the Teflon President while he was in still in prison, a man who helped him get into office in the first place.

[scarletwoman]

5. Al Giordano and Narco News were on top of this YEARS ago.

Before Uribe was first elected in 2002, narconews.com had pages and pages of details about his connections with the drug trafficers.

Of course, not a word of this was ever breathed in the U.S. news -- who were always much more interested in demonizing Hugo Chavez.

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