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Leadership Opportunities continue to open up at FARC
Colombian troops killed a regional rebel commander, the fifth guerrilla leader slain in less than a month, a top army general said Tuesday. Luis Alexis Castellanos Garzon of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, died in a firefight Sunday night along with another rebel in Ubala, 30 miles east of Bogota, said Gen. Reynaldo Castellanos, commander of the army’s Fifth Division. The army believes Castellanos Garzon led a 1999 ambush on an army column that left 36 soldiers dead. "We consider his death to be a major blow to the FARC," Castellanos told The Associated Press.
"We're glad he's dead. We hope he rots in hell."
Castellanos Garzon’s death follows that of four other guerrilla commanders in the Cundinamarca region, which borders the Colombian capital, Bogota. Gen. Reynaldo Castellanos said better intelligence and more cooperation from local villagers had helped the military efforts to track down guerrilla leaders.
Same thing happened to the Shining Path. Eventually the locals opted for a tasteful brick walkway.
Separately, Colombian anti-guerrilla forces shot dead the No. 2 leader of the FARC’s Arturo Medina unit, Luis Alberto Camacho Duarte, early Tuesday in the southwestern Narino province, the army said. The conflict, which pits two rebel groups against government forces and outlawed right-wing paramilitary factions, kills an average 3,500 people, mainly civilians, every year.
Two against one - that’s not fair.
Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-05
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