Karina, F.A.R.C. leader captured.

[BIG BROTHER]

Nelly Avila Moreno, FARC's 'Karina', captured by Colombian forces in war on drugs

By Jeremy McDermott in Medellin
Last Updated: 2:16AM BST 20/05/2008

One of Colombia's most renowned rebel fighters, and the guerrillas' senior female commander, has surrendered in yet another victory for the US-backed war policy of Oxford-educated President Alvaro Uribe.

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Nelly Avila Moreno, the notorious FARC rebel better known as Karina, had a £400,000 bounty on her head

"We have been after this woman for a long time," said Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos, "but she always gave us the slip."
Half-starved and wounded Nelly Avila Moreno, better known by her guerrilla alias 'Karina', surrendered to the secret police, the DAS, ending one of the legends of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"To become a FARC leader you have to been utterly ruthless and vicious, even more so if you are a woman," said an army intelligence source. "Karina was both."

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A glance at Karina shows why she was known as a female 'Rambo' in the FARC. She has lost the sight in one eye and has scars on her face from combat. She has lost a breast and has bullet wounds along an arm.
Yet she gave far worse than she got. She was wanted for a battery of charges, among them murder, extortion and kidnapping. She has been linked to a series of massacres in the banana-growing region of Uraba up by the Caribbean Coast, near where she was born.

Yet by negotiating her surrender under the government amnesty legislation known as the Peace and Justice Law, she can be sentenced to a maximum of eight years in prison.

She came to public attention in June 2002 after the town of Arboleda-Pensilvania in the province of Caldas was attacked by a rebel column. 13 policemen were killed along with four civilians, including one woman burned alive for being married to a policeman.

It was then that President Alvaro Uribe called upon his security forces to capture or kill Karina and put a £400,000 bounty on her head.
Karina, 45, commandeered the FARC's 47th Front which, at the height of its power, had 350 members operating in and around the northern province of Antioquia, the capital of which, Medellin, is where she now sits in a police cell, awaiting her fate.

Karina came under greater pressure in March this year, after her immediate boss, Ivan Rios, a member of the FARC's ruling seven-man body the Secretariat, was murdered by one of his bodyguards.
The bodyguard, alias 'Rojas', cut off Rios' hand as proof of his act and turned himself into the authorities where he promptly claimed, and later received, a reward for more than £500,000.

"To become a FARC leader you have to been utterly ruthless and vicious, even more so if you are a woman. Karina was both."
Army intelligence source



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Well this actually happened like 3 days ago but nobody posted it, so I just figured it do it. It seems that lately the colombian goverment has had the upper hand against FARC.

In other articles I've also read that she invited her comrades to do the same, and expressed her admiration for Hugo Chavez.

[metalero]

The continuing militaristic approach might inflict some losses on the enemy, but its impact is much wider and effective in eroding the few democratic spaces alvailable, perpetuating the circle of violence, poverty and human rights violations; 900 extra-judiciary executions, 4 million displaced peasants, 600 labor activists murdered in Uribe’s years are not worth the alleged sucess agaisnt FARC. The armed conflict, which is closer to a dead end than a triumph by either force, implies mutilple armed actors all participating in attacks against civilians and human rights violations, most of them coming from the colombian state and its paramilitary allies. Freedom, justice, social participation and political tolerance are more effective in encouraging political basis for peace than any intelligence or military offensive. Unfortunately, these principles are far from being political goals in this absurd war.

[BIG BROTHER]

let me add that i read somewhere else that acording to colombian goverment figures, since 2003(or 2002) about 9,000 FARC fighters have decided to surrender themselves, under the so called invitation that Uribe has offered.

[Guerrilla22]

It seems Uribe is taking the Fujimori approach; fighting percieved terrorism with state terrorism.

[BIG BROTHER]

It seems Uribe is taking the Fujimori approach; fighting percieved terrorism with state terrorism.

yep, too bad the media never talks about the slaughters made by the colombian army, and the paramilitary.

btw, now that las FARC has lost 2 leaders, and one has been captured. Do you guys think that the guerrilla is comning to an end? Keep in mind too that aparently like i said before a great number of FARC fighter have aparently desserted or turned in themselves.