| According to video seized to supposed guerrilla |
FARC financed to Thong |
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| Rafael Correa denies version on financing of his campaign on the part of the FARC.Foto: Presidency of Ecuador / AP |
Frank Bajak
Morelia, Mexico / AP
The Colombian General Prosecutor's Office investigates documents seized by the police to a supposed guerrilla of the FARC and between which it represents a video in which a tall chief of these guerrillas mentions contributions in dollars started to the first electoral campaign of the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa.
Hermes Ardila, chief of the district attorneys of the unit antiterrorism of the General Prosecutor's Office, confirmed that his office takes the case of Adela Pérez, alias “Camila“, of 36 years, who was leading an urban network of the FARC in Bogota. The woman was detained by the police in a house of the district of Rise, to the northwest of the capital, on May 30, 2009 and him three computers were seized, one of them with a video of at least one hour.
In the filming one of seven members meets Jorge Briceño, alias “Monkey Jojoy”, of the secretariat of the FARC, mentioning that between other informations of the guerrillas that have stayed to the overdraft – due to operative of the Colombian authorities - there are the contributions given by the insurgents to the campaign of Thong in 2006.
“ The secrets of the FARC have got lost completely”, made sure the rebellious leader.
“ Help in dollars to the campaign of Thong and later conversations with his emissaries, including some agreements, according to documents in power of all of us, which turn out to be very compromising in our connections with the friends”, listens to say to Briceño standing opposite to a portable computer of the one that reads in the middle of a forest place.
It was the first time that listened of living voice to a tall member of the FARC to mention such contributions, of which they had already circulated versions in 2008. The Thong government has always denied them.
In the video one does not listen to Briceño to give details on the dedicated total or the date of this contribution.
Last year, five documents leaked out or filtered through the government to the means were mentioning communications in which rebellious chiefs were discussing a contribution for 100.000 dollars done by the FARC to the Thong campaign at the end of 2006. The government of Bogota affirmed that such documents were of a computer of a chief of the FARC.
Nicaragua
Not to reelection
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Guatemala
Visas false
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Peru
Another condemnation
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The ex-president, who will be 71 years in order month, already purges a condemnation of 25 years of jail for the death of 25 persons to hands of a squadron of annihilation of the army during his government, and one of six years for functions usurpation. In Peru the sorrow does not accumulate.
Chile
Rain surprise
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Colombia
Hostages FARC
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Venezuela
Bases the USA
The president Hugo Chávez announced that the relation with Colombia will be submitted to a "review" then that the government of the Andean country informed that he negotiates an agreement with the United States so that American troops could use at least three military bases in Colombian territory.
Uruguay
More murders
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