Colombia’s prosecution arrested the former hostage chief of demobilized guerrilla group FARC on Saturday, claiming he was involved in a 2017 kidnapping. According to the prosecution, Sombra and former FARC…
Two prominent former commanders of Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC will stand on trial next week for numerous crimes against humanity including several prominent kidnapping cases.
One of Colombian guerrilla group FARC’s most notorious kidnappers, aptly nicknamed the “jailer”, asked his victims for forgiveness Wednesday. Captured FARC combatant Heli Mejia Mendoza, alias “Martin Sombra,” asked for…
Two FARC guerrillas were sentenced to nineteen years and three months in jail for the kidnap of the three U.S. contractors, who were later rescued by the Colombian military in…