Colombian authorities have captured one of the FARC’s most experienced explosive experts, who was responsible for a failed assassination plot against former President Alvaro Uribe that ultimately left 15 people dead and 66 injured.
Aldemar Soto Charry, alias “El Ingeniero,” had already been sentenced in absentia to 30 years for the 2003 FARC assassination attempt near an airport in Neiva, the capital of southwestern Huila department, W Radio reported Monday.
The apparent 51-year-old explosive expert for the Teofilo Forero Castro Column of the FARC had been a member of the guerrilla group for 25 years and masterminded the indiscriminate planting of mines in various parts of the Huila and Caqueta departments.
The veteran guerrilla was caught in the village of Tranquilandia, in Caqueta, where he had been working on a farm dedicated to agriculture and livestock, which the FARC had apparently bought in order to keep him hidden.