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Colombian ex-guerrilla 'Santrich' believed dead in Venezuela ​ By IANS | ​ 0 Views Colombian ex-guerrilla 'Santrich' believed dead in Venezuela. Image Source: IANS News Rio De Janeiro, May 19 : An ex-commander of the former Colombian guerrilla movement FARC is believed to have been killed in Venezuela, Defence Minister Diego Molano said. Molano on Tuesday said that intelligence information indicated that Seuxis Hernandez, alias Jesus Santrich, was killed with "other criminals" in clashes in Venezuela on Monday. The Defence Minister tweeted that the information was being verified but, if...

news Jesus Santrich: Ex-FARC leader killed in Venezuela, say dissidents dw.com 5 hrs ago dw.com Colombia's defense ministry says it is working to confirm the killing of the leading figure from the former guerilla group. © Getty Images/AFP/J. Barreto Provided by Deutsche Welle A prominent former FARC leader has been killed in a Colombian military operation in Venezuela, his new rebel group said Tuesday. 'Jesus Santrich' had been on the run for three years after abandoning a peace deal he helped negotiate with the Colombian government. The 2016 accord ended a 52-year gueril...

By Syndicated Content By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s government is working to confirm whether Jesus Santrich, one of the most prominent leaders of a group of Colombia’s former FARC rebels who reject a peace deal, has been killed in Venezuela, the defense minister said on Tuesday. Santrich, who initially backed the 2016 accord, was wanted by the United States on drug trafficking charges and had long been thought to be based in Venezuela. “Intelligence information signals that alias Santrich and other criminals were killed in supposed confrontations which took p...

Alice Police Blotter Arrested on campus On Monday, May 10, police were called to a school on the #1 Coyote Trail in reference to a student with drugs. When Officer Hector Perez arrived he made contact with the reporting party. The reporting party told the officer that 17-year-old Isiah Montes had been searched after returning to the campus. During the search, Montes was discovered to have a bag of marijuana hidden in his wallet. Montes was arrested and taken to the JWC jail. He was charged with possession of marijuana in a Drug Free Zone. Heroin and crystal meth Two men and a woman were arres...

FARC Takes Hostage Eight Venezuelan Military Officers By Carlos Camacho CARACAS – The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), the rogue offshoot Colombian political party that didn’t accept the 2006 Bogota peace accords, reported to the Red Cross it had taken eight Venezuelan military officers affiliated with the Nicolás Maduro regime as hostages. In a letter to the Red Cross International, the FARC-EP labels the men as “prisoners of war.” The letter was first posted by high-profile Venezuelan NGO Fundaredes and is now being picked up by Venezuelan and internatio...