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Caribbean-Latin America
FARC had contacts with German leftists
2008-05-26
Left-wing Colombian FARC rebels had contacts with leftist groups in Germany, according to data on a laptop belonging to slain commander Raul Reyes, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday. Reyes, the number two commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was killed on March 1 in a raid by Colombian forces just inside Ecuador.
The German angle is newly-reported.
Emails on his laptop show that in January 2005 he sent his son to Germany in a secret mission, Der Spiegel said in an article to be published Monday. There his son met with members of the German communist party and with far-left politician Wolfgang Gehrcke, who offered to press the European Parliament to take the FARC off its list of terrorist organizations.

“It was a very positive meeting,” Der Spiegel quotes an email found on Reyes’s laptop. “We were able to substantiate several points to reactivate solidarity with the struggle of the Colombian people.”
Posted by:Steve White

#2  Never happen. The ruling class protects it's own. Everywhere.
Posted by: jds   2008-05-26 21:19  

#1  Wouldn't it be nice if arrests were to follow.
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-05-26 08:41  

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