FARC terrorist leader "Timochenko" reads a declaration from the Marxist terrorist group's high command. 

BOGOTA - The National Police force of Colombia busted a kidnapping ring operated by the terrorist group FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionaria de Colombia), officials announced on Thursday. 

The takedown of the kidnappers was the result of simultaneous raids in Bogota, Giron, Neiva and Santander.

NORTE DE SANTANDER - The Colombian terrorist group FARC is suspected of setting off a car bomb in a terrorist attack that killed a 12-year-old child and a 21-year-old girl, as well as a female bystander that was near the blast. 

Colombian authorities place the blame on the FARC's 33rd Front, which has been active in the area with a number of attacks on civilians.
 

ANTIOQUIA - Members of the 36th Front of Colombia's FARC terrorist group set two civilian passenger buses on fire Thursday in the department of Antioquia.

The terrorist attack took place on the road from Puerto Valdivia to Taranza, where terrorist operatives stopped the buses, forced the passengers out, and set them ablaze.

The police chief from the area told the media that the area was cleared and the road was re-opened several hours after the attack took place.

The same set of FARC terrorists bombed power lines on Tuesday in an area not far from where Thursday's attack occurred.

The FARC is listed as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union, and survives from the proceeds of narcotrafficking, kidnapping civilians, and by charging "revolutionary taxes" to small business owners in the areas where they set up camps to avoid detection by the Colombian Armed Forces.

BOGOTA - Colombian terrorist group ELN vowed Monday to continue its stance of violent war against Colombia's democratically elected government in order to achieve what it called "real peace" in the country.

 
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez (left) threatened to arrest former Uribe 
advisor Jose Obdulio Gaviria (right) if he entered the country to assist opposition.

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to arrest Jose Obdulio Gaviria, the former presidential adviser during the administration of Alvaro Uribe, if he entered Venezuela on a planned trip to meet with opposition leaders inside the country.

Gaviria had planned a trip to Chacao, in the State of Miranda, to consult with the mayor of the town on security in the region. But on Saturday, Chavez threatened both Gaviria and Alfredo Rangel, a security analyst, with jail if they entered Venezuela.

Viviana, the daughter of murdered hostage Edgar Yesid Duarte, shows one of the detailed drawings
that her father drew in the 177 page book of morality tales that he left for his daughter in case of his death at 
the hands of the terrorist group that held him hostage for 13 years in the jungles of Colombia.
 

In 1998, Edgar Yesid Duarte had worked his way up to captain as a member of Colombia's National Police, and had been married for just 36 months to his bride Susy when he was taken hostage by the left-wing terrorist group FARC.

Edgar and Susy had a baby girl that they named Viviana, who never got to know her father before he was taken away for the execrable extortion racket that has been honed into a profitable enterprise by the FARC and its collaborators in Colombia and neighboring countries.

After a decade of being held hostage by the FARC, suffering the forced marches through the unforgiving Colombian jungle with chains wrapped around his neck, Edgar knew that the chances of surviving long enough to see his daughter again were remote.

BOGOTA - The Colombian terror group FARC announced Tuesday its intention to release an unspecified number of hostages, in a statement released hours after tens of thousands of people marched in major cities calling for an end to kidnappings.

President Juan Manuel Santos said that he was not willing to exchange any jailed terrorists in excahge for hostages, as the terrorist group had suggested, but he said that he was open to a future dialogue if there are signs of "true political will."

In a message without much detail, the FARC communique promised "the unilateral release of prisoners of war that we announced in our earlier letter, even though some of them were killed in the senseless military rescue attempt, " The message came in a letter released Tuesday on the Marxist terrorist group's website (www.farc-ep.co).

The FARC tried to claim that four hostages killed on November 26th were the result of the a military attack on their camp. The Colombian military found the bodies of three policemen and Army Sergeant Jose Libyan Martinez, the oldest guerrilla hostage, who had been held hostage since December 21, 1997.

"We deeply regret that four of the six prisoners of war that we would unilaterally release (...) have died in an irrational attempt to rescue them by the Colombian army, as they marched to the place that we were planning to deliver them," the communique stated.

BOGOTA - Tens of thousands of Colombians marched against the narco-terrorist group FARC in 32 cities today to demand the release of all hostages kidnapped by the terrorist group, and to protest the murder of four hostages last month.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its initials as the FARC, began in 1964 during a time of political turmoil in Colombia, and has since evolved into a Marxist terror operation that survives on the international cocaine trade. 

Since former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe began an effort to aggressively fight the FARC nearly a decade ago, the group has built upon its international contacts to fight a media and legal war against the Colombian state, and against Uribe himself. 

The FARC, after suffering the death of a number of its leaders over the last two years, has vowed to continue its violent "struggle" against the Colombian State and against ordinary Colombians, whose children are often forced into service in its ranks. 

5000 citizens turned up on Sunday to march in support of the rescue of 10 year old Nohora Munoz, kidnapped on 

BOGOTA - Colombian police have arrested three members of the FARC terrorist group for the kidnapping of 10-year-old Nohora Valentina Munoz that occurred last September.

BOGOTA (AP) - A Colombian indigenous leader was killed by suspected FARC terrorists, though the motives are not yet known for the assassination, the Colombian national police said on Tuesday.

The killing drove to 60 the number of murders of members of different ethnic groups in Colombia so far in 2011, according to data from the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC). There were 114 killings last year, according to ONIC.

BOGOTA - Colombian terrorist group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC, today named a new leader after its former head, Alfonso Cano, was killed by Colombian Armed Forces. 

Rodrigo Londono, 52, who is better known as "Timochenko," was named the new head of the FARC on November 5, 2011, the day after Cano was dispatched by the Army in Southwestern Colombia.

Timochenko is one of the longest-serving members of the FARC leadership, an been a member of the FARC secretariat since the 1980s.

The U.S. government has put up a $5 million reward for Timochenko, and Colombia's government has added another $2.6 million for his capture.

 
Ivan Marquez, supposed heir to the throne of the FARC,
is said to be behind the terrorist groups' efforts to 
infiltrate and radicalize the student movement. 

BOGOTA - According to the Colombian daily El Espectador, Colombian police announced that their intelligence services had uncovered evidence that the FARC has plans to influence student protests, particularly in Bogota, and to take advantage of a student protest march planned for this Thursday. 

According to official information, this situation is being investigated by the authorities to determine the scope of plans by the Clandestine Communist Party of Colombia, known as the PC3, and of orders by the FARC secretariat to infiltrate universities and its practice of distributing subversive propaganda in schools.

Among the files that were analyzed by authorities - there are several that were signed by Iván Márquez who is assumed to be the most likely successor to the recently killed terrorist leader 'Alfonso Cano'- which talks about a "massive mobilization" of students in Bogota and the call for several leftist organizations to go out and stop traffic in the city.

BOGOTA - Ex-terrorist turned politician Gustavo Petro has won the mayoralty of Bogota, defeating former mayor Enrique Penalos by 32 percent of the vote to 25 percent.

Petro, a former member of the M-19 terrorist group, had run for president the year before, coming in fourth. Although a number of ex-terrorists have run for office, and many have infiltrated government institutions, Petro is the first to win a major office.

Former President Alvaro Uribe had campaigned for Penalosa, but some analysts have speculated that Bogota, with a far more left-wing constituency than most of Colombia, saw the intervention by Uribe as an affront that could have helped elect Petro.

Though Petro has been accused of masterminding the 1985 Palace of Justice terrorist attack, he was able to overcome accusations of continued collaboration with Colombia's narcotrafficking terrorist groups. He has also been one of the foremost accusers of corruption against former president Alvaro Uribe and others in his administration.

BOGOTA - "I spoke with the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel. The work for peace in the Middle East continues," Santos wrote on his Twitter account.

Santos spoke by telephone with two senior officials to offer to help with the search for peaceful coexistence between the Israelis and Palestinians.

On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Maria Holguin said she believed that Santos would inform Netanyahu on the outcome of the meeting he held with the President of Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud Abbas earlier in the week.

Colombia has been a long time ally of Israel, and continues a strong bilateral security and trade relationship, even as many of its neighbors have turned against Israel in recent years under under the leadership of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

5000 citizens turned up on Sunday to march in support of the rescue of 10 year old Nohora Munoz, kidnapped on 
September 29th by one of Colombia's left-wing terrorist groups.

ARAUCA - Colombian Armed Forces reported today that they had killed five members of the ELN terrorist group in a clash on Sunday in Fortul, a city near the Venezuelan border where ELN and FARC terrorists have been known to operate, where they are able to escape into Venezuela when necessary.

According to a press release from Speaker Boehner's office, President Obama has formally submitted free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea to the congress.

The trade agreements had been held up by labor groups that claimed that Colombian trade unionists were being targeted for killing, but a report in the New York Times showed that trade unionists were safer than the average Colombian.

This afternoon, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's office put out a press release that said the following:

Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced that the House will act on the free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, a central provision of the House Republicans' Plan for America's Job Creators. The White House has submitted the agreements to Congress and it is expected that the House will pass these agreements next week.
 

FARC graffiti found in Universidad Distrital in Bogota,
announcing a strategy to infiltrate schools and universities.
("Because the mountains are our university.")
 

President Juan Manuel Santos reported Wednesday that FARC terrorists are infiltrating social protests in the country.

During an activation ceremony of the Marine Brigade No. 4 in Tumaco (Nariño), the President also said the government defends the right to protest, but not subversion. "Protests, yes. But this way of doing things we are not going to tolerate, "said Santos.

"We know that the FARC's strategy will be to foment social protests and then infiltrate the protest to produce violence and cause chaos," revealed the President.

He said the Government learned of the intentions of the FARC from intelligence sources, as well as by the information found on computers, and from the testimony of demobilized FARC terrorists.

Santos asked students and social organizations not to allow bad actors to manipulate legitimate organizations, and asked them to work with the authorities.

Former President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe said in Spain that the bombing of the FARC camp in the Ecuadorian jungle in March 2008 "allowed us to begin the process that ended months later with the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt" and three American contractors.

The attack caused a rift in diplomatic relations, which soon became secondary to the intelligence bonanza taken from FARC computers captured in the incident. The computers showed that Ecuador President Rafael Correa's administration had been collaborating with the FARC, despite official warnings by the Colombian government to help remove them from Ecuadorian territory.

Uribe recalled the two events during his speech at a conference which opened the XII Latin American Meeting on Digital Cities, held through Friday in the Basque city of Bilbao, Spain.

In his speech, Uribe touted the transformation that took place in Colombia between 2002 and 2010, a period during which he was president, in which he implemented a strategy to defeat the FARC terrorist group.