Tag: guerrilla

FARC Guerillas Decry Drug Trafficking Charge

December 23, 2014 No Comments

Amid peace talks in Havana, Colombia‘s FARC guerillas issued an angry communique December 14, insisting, “We are a rebel group, not narco-traffickers.” This was in response

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Kurdish Guerrillas Behind Turkey’s Hashish Trade?

June 15, 2017 No Comments

Security forces in southeastern Turkey, where authorities have been waging a brutal counter-insurgency war against Kurdish guerrillas, reported the seizure last week of 2,290 kilograms of hashish and 6,632 kilograms of unprocessed cannabis “in an operation against the drug activities of the PKK terrorist organization.” The operation took place in five villages of the conflicted Diyarbakır province, with seven suspects

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Peru: New Coca Eradication Effort Met with Guerrilla Attack

June 7, 2017 No Comments

Announcement of an aggressive new coca-eradication campaign in Peru was met with a deadly attack on security forces in the targeted production zone. Authorities said “narco-terrorists” attacked a National Police patrol in the Apurímac-Ene-Mantaro River Valley (VRAEM), leaving two troops dead. The VRAEM, a pocket of jungle on the eastern slopes of the Andes, is believed to produce around 75 percent of Peru’s

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FARC Guerillas Decry Drug Trafficking Charge

December 23, 2014 No Comments

Amid peace talks in Havana, Colombia‘s FARC guerillas issued an angry communique December 14, insisting, “We are a rebel group, not narco-traffickers.” This was in response to President Juan Manuel Santos’ suggestion that FARC drug trafficking could be considered a “political crime,” potentially sparing guerilla leaders prosecution. This of course won Santos howls of outrage from the right; now he gets it

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