{"id":20572,"date":"2010-09-23T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20572"},"modified":"2010-09-23T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T16:31:11","slug":"farcs-2-eats-hot-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20572","title":{"rendered":"FARC’s #2 eats hot lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Star (Reuters) is reporting<\/a> that the Colombian communist guerrilla group FARC is reeling from the aerial attack which killed their #2 commander, Mono Jojoy, pictured above in an Eric Shinseki black beret with FARC founder Manuel Marulanda.<\/p>\n

El Universal <\/a>says that the defense minister of Colombia is calling this “the most significant blow to FARC in history”.<\/p>\n

Using his real name, Jorge Briceno, ABC writes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Briceno belonged to the FARC’s seven-member ruling Secretariat. The group’s main leader, Alfonso Cano, remains at large and is believed to be in the mountains of central Colombia.<\/p>\n

Colombian officials say they believe other Secretariat members are hiding out in neighboring Venezuela.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good. That ought stir Hugo Chavez into making stupid mistakes and saying stupid shit.<\/p>\n

Once branded as a failing state, Colombia has seen bombings and kidnappings from its long war ebb and foreign investment has grown fivefold since 2002, when former President Alvaro Uribe began a hard-line campaign against the rebels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news comes as former captive of FARC, Ingrid Betancourt releases a book about her experiences as a hostage<\/a> for six and a half years. I haven’t read her book, but I did read the book “Out of Captivity” by the three American contractors who were held hostage by FARC for five years. In that book, Marc Gonsalves was not kind to Betancourt. Betancourt and the three American hostages, Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, were rescued by Colombian special forces without firing a shot.<\/p>\n

I wonder how this administration will react to death of Mono Joyjoy (mono means “monkey” in Spanish) along with an estimate of 27 others in the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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