The actions of the FARC in Panama does not have the same force four years ago, although it has not ceased to drug raid; same guerrillas hiding entirely on Panamanian soil.
Border authorities continue to hunt their prey, Front leaders 57 FARC and mobile columns in peaceful areas, Central and Atlantic. The main heads of the FARC are priceless in Panama for three years. The number of rewards for 13 Chief Front 57 the insurgent group over a million dollars.
The State Border Service (SENAFRONT) argues that they have regained 26% the territory that was once controlled by guerrillas, which exceeded over 410 insurgents in the Colombian-Panamanian. In 2014, the same guerrilla units in Panama do not hide, use the country for its economic actions, drug trafficking and people still have their ranks in the capital city.
Rewards
Why today, Front chiefs 57 FARC are priceless, while a peace process unfolds in Havana, Cuba, with the Colombian government?
In this regard there are conflicting opinions that support the search for guerrilla leaders, as well as those who deplore militarization in the Panamanian area security units and interfere in a foreign conflict.
With the deaths of alias "Silver", whereby they offered 300 grand, and other insurgent; and delivering alias "Nando", by which he was giving 70 thousand dollars for delivery, the figure has changed and over half a million dollars.
Remain in place and in the arena rewards for information leading to the whereabouts of his top commander, Gilberto Jesus Torres, alias "Calf" ($120,000);
* Alias “Nader” ($70,000 thousand)
* Alias "Malice" ($120,000)
* "El Restore" ($100,000)
* Pinocchio ($70,000)
* Mauricio Jaramillo ($70,000)
* Cabbage ($70,000)
* Ivan ($700)
* Trujillo ($200,000)
These figures were confirmed by SENAFRONT.
The fund to pay for delivery of Front Heads 57 FARC from the United States, confirmed a high source of Panamanian security.
Panamanian eyes on FARC members
The actions of the FARC are quietly guarded by specialized units SENAFRONT, who are hunting the guerrillas in the Darien jungle and caribbean indigenous Kuna Yala area.
His most recent finding in early 2014, was that of a caleto PKM ammunition, TNT ruso, gunpowder, Aluminum powder, detonators, a ranch camp located in River Mono, search Matugantí, Darien, cacerío High Tuira, area was under a strong influence of the Colombian guerrilla.
Fiscal First Drug, Javier Caraballo, confirmed that the arrests of Colombian Colombian-Panamanian border has its actions in areas of influence of the FARC.
Caraballo explicitly confirmed that people move on foot and when captured are treated like drug dealers.
The code of silence has allowed not know what is beyond the actions and mode of operation for the incursion of armed men carrying Panamanian drug for this area.
A total of 14 people have been arrested for illegal border situations in the Darien.
A source specializing in border security actions indicated that the areas of influence of the Front 57 FARC, with which the Panamanian territory fight with Urabeños-demobilized paramilitaries are precisely the border areas of Upper Lemon, en y Paya Payita, Darien; Peaceful River Area Jaqué, the river Pabarandó, and central header Darien, Balsa and the rivers Tuira; and the towns of Matugantí Sobiaquirú; north of the region, the river Tuquesa, and climbing areas of the Atlantic Wall and The La Bonga, Honey in Guna Yala. Cyclists in dispute to drug trafficking.
Currently the situation is that the SENAFRONT can not doubt that someone should surrender to the most wanted leaders of the Front 57.
The source said: "Now is the time to look, and overwhelm, and you can not hide ".
Ábrego: “Farcrim” y “cartel”
Whoever has increased its use of force at the border is the director of the State Border Service, Frank Abrego, with a budget of $74 million 3,800 men and women who defend the Panamanian border strips of Costa Rica and Colombia. Keeps a command special forces and border featuring updated cars- war jeep, grenade launchers, fluvial team, Weapons of war, thermal scopes and night to counter the subversive groups.
The peace process, Abrego see it with a magnifying glass. It assumes that if a demobilization of the FARC is achieved, will end in something like in "Farcrim", as called.
"The peace process has no more political interference in the FARC, is a drug cartel, and persist in drug trafficking ", argument Ábrego.
Sustained to the equipment of their troops on the Colombian-Panamanian border is for preventive work against the scourge of drugs. He said he has recuperarado the 26% Panamanian territory was in the hands of the Front 57, while regular operations in recent years have led to the capture of more than 242 Colombians and 90 Panamanians, linked with rebel groups and criminal organizations.
"We have an internal conflict with the guerrillas; for us have always been drug dealers ", Abrego reference to FARC, which has among its ranks a national: José Luis Valencia Mosquera, alias "El Restore".
The head of SENAFRONT referred to as a Panamanian who will be the fact of being born in Yaviza, Darien, only. "We Alegra me, ni saddens me. A Panamanian, quotes, who has lived more on the guerrilla ... the end is an international criminal who is already reviewed ".
* The original report was published in Revista Crítica (Spanish)
* Read this article on PDF (Spanish)
*Este reportaje fue realizado por Grisel Bethancourt del Diario Crítica en el marco de la Iniciativa para el Periodismo de Investigación en las Américas del International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) en alianza con CONNECTAS.
The actions of the FARC in Panama does not have the same force four years ago, although it has not ceased to drug raid; same guerrillas hiding entirely on Panamanian soil.
Border authorities continue to hunt their prey, Front leaders 57 FARC and mobile columns in peaceful areas, Central and Atlantic. The main heads of the FARC are priceless in Panama for three years. The number of rewards for 13 Chief Front 57 the insurgent group over a million dollars.
The State Border Service (SENAFRONT) argues that they have regained 26% the territory that was once controlled by guerrillas, which exceeded over 410 insurgents in the Colombian-Panamanian. In 2014, the same guerrilla units in Panama do not hide, use the country for its economic actions, drug trafficking and people still have their ranks in the capital city.
Rewards
Why today, Front chiefs 57 FARC are priceless, while a peace process unfolds in Havana, Cuba, with the Colombian government?
In this regard there are conflicting opinions that support the search for guerrilla leaders, as well as those who deplore militarization in the Panamanian area security units and interfere in a foreign conflict.
With the deaths of alias “Silver”, whereby they offered 300 grand, and other insurgent; and delivering alias “Nando”, by which he was giving 70 thousand dollars for delivery, the figure has changed and over half a million dollars.
Remain in place and in the arena rewards for information leading to the whereabouts of his top commander, Gilberto Jesus Torres, alias “Calf” ($120,000);
* Alias “Nader” ($70,000 thousand)
* Alias “Malice” ($120,000)
* “El Restore” ($100,000)
* Pinocchio ($70,000)
* Mauricio Jaramillo ($70,000)
* Cabbage ($70,000)
* Ivan ($700)
* Trujillo ($200,000)
These figures were confirmed by SENAFRONT.
The fund to pay for delivery of Front Heads 57 FARC from the United States, confirmed a high source of Panamanian security.
Panamanian eyes on FARC members
The actions of the FARC are quietly guarded by specialized units SENAFRONT, who are hunting the guerrillas in the Darien jungle and caribbean indigenous Kuna Yala area.
His most recent finding in early 2014, was that of a caleto PKM ammunition, TNT ruso, gunpowder, Aluminum powder, detonators, a ranch camp located in River Mono, search Matugantí, Darien, cacerío High Tuira, area was under a strong influence of the Colombian guerrilla.
Fiscal First Drug, Javier Caraballo, confirmed that the arrests of Colombian Colombian-Panamanian border has its actions in areas of influence of the FARC.
Caraballo explicitly confirmed that people move on foot and when captured are treated like drug dealers.
The code of silence has allowed not know what is beyond the actions and mode of operation for the incursion of armed men carrying Panamanian drug for this area.
A total of 14 people have been arrested for illegal border situations in the Darien.
A source specializing in border security actions indicated that the areas of influence of the Front 57 FARC, with which the Panamanian territory fight with Urabeños-demobilized paramilitaries are precisely the border areas of Upper Lemon, en y Paya Payita, Darien; Peaceful River Area Jaqué, the river Pabarandó, and central header Darien, Balsa and the rivers Tuira; and the towns of Matugantí Sobiaquirú; north of the region, the river Tuquesa, and climbing areas of the Atlantic Wall and The La Bonga, Honey in Guna Yala. Cyclists in dispute to drug trafficking.
Currently the situation is that the SENAFRONT can not doubt that someone should surrender to the most wanted leaders of the Front 57.
The source said: “Now is the time to look, and overwhelm, and you can not hide “.
Ábrego: “Farcrim” y “cartel”
Whoever has increased its use of force at the border is the director of the State Border Service, Frank Abrego, with a budget of $74 million 3,800 men and women who defend the Panamanian border strips of Costa Rica and Colombia. Keeps a command special forces and border featuring updated cars- war jeep, grenade launchers, fluvial team, Weapons of war, thermal scopes and night to counter the subversive groups.
The peace process, Abrego see it with a magnifying glass. It assumes that if a demobilization of the FARC is achieved, will end in something like in “Farcrim”, as called.
“The peace process has no more political interference in the FARC, is a drug cartel, and persist in drug trafficking “, argument Ábrego.
Sustained to the equipment of their troops on the Colombian-Panamanian border is for preventive work against the scourge of drugs. He said he has recuperarado the 26% Panamanian territory was in the hands of the Front 57, while regular operations in recent years have led to the capture of more than 242 Colombians and 90 Panamanians, linked with rebel groups and criminal organizations.
“We have an internal conflict with the guerrillas; for us have always been drug dealers “, Abrego reference to FARC, which has among its ranks a national: José Luis Valencia Mosquera, alias “El Restore”.
The head of SENAFRONT referred to as a Panamanian who will be the fact of being born in Yaviza, Darien, only. “We Alegra me, ni saddens me. A Panamanian, quotes, who has lived more on the guerrilla … the end is an international criminal who is already reviewed “.
* The original report was published in Revista Crítica (Spanish)
* Read this article on PDF (Spanish)
*Este reportaje fue realizado por Grisel Bethancourt del Diario Crítica en el marco de la Iniciativa para el Periodismo de Investigación en las Américas del International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) en alianza con CONNECTAS.
