{"id":314495,"date":"2011-03-16T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/16\/colombian-military-kills-farc-leader\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:39:51","slug":"colombian-military-kills-farc-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/16\/colombian-military-kills-farc-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian military kills FARC leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"69.8836135839\">  <!-- start feedback link --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/feedback link -->       <!-- Tracking values --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!--startclickprintinclude-->   <!--endclickprintinclude--> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"53.6055461234\"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- CONTENT -->  <!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!-- PURGE: \/2011\/WORLD\/americas\/03\/16\/colombia.farc\/t1larg.farc.m9.gi.afp.jpg --><!-- KEEP --><!--===========CAPTION==========--><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>Soldiers patrol an area in eastern Colombia where FARC rebels allegedly kidnapped 22 oil contractors in early March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--===========\/CAPTION=========--><!-- \/PURGE: \/2011\/WORLD\/americas\/03\/16\/colombia.farc\/t1larg.farc.m9.gi.afp.jpg --> <!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Oliver Solarte&#8221; was the FARC&#8217;s liaison with Mexican drug cartels<\/li>\n<li>He was killed in a military operation Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Colombia&#8217;s president called it a &#8220;very important strike&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--> <!--startclickprintinclude--> <\/p>\n<p><b>(CNN)<\/b> &#8212; The Colombian military killed a rebel leader who was a liaison with Mexican drug cartels, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.<\/p>\n<p>The military operation near Colombia&#8217;s border with Ecuador, in the department of Putumayo, happened on Tuesday, the president said.<\/p>\n<p>The rebel leader known as &#8220;Oliver Solarte&#8221; worked directly for the secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a very important person inside the FARC,&#8221; the president said Tuesday. &#8220;He managed all the drug trafficking and arms trafficking for the southern bloc of the FARC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Solarte also was the FARC&#8217;s contact with Mexican cartels to traffic drugs and accept financing, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The FARC leader was a former militia leader for the organization and had been wanted by authorities for a long time, the president said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was a &#8220;very important strike&#8221; against the FARC, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, I want to tell them that if they continue as they are they are going to fall one after another, because here we don&#8217;t lower our vigilance and we have many more in our sights,&#8221; Santos said.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Solarte&#8217;s body, authorities recovered communications equipment, six grenades, ammunition and 11 mobile phones, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>Solarte was sought for extradition to the United States for drug trafficking and was wanted in Colombia for terrorism, kidnapping, rebellion, and murder.<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintinclude--><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strycntnt --><!-- \/cnn_strycntntrgt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|Read the original here|Read more from the original source|Continued here|Read more|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original here|Originally posted here|Here is the original post|See the original post|The rest is here|Read the rest here|See the rest here|Go here to read the rest|Go here to see the original|See the original post here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|See the article here|Read this article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Soldiers patrol an area in eastern Colombia where FARC rebels allegedly kidnapped 22 oil contractors in early March. STORY HIGHLIGHTS &#8220;Oliver Solarte&#8221; was the FARC&#8217;s liaison with Mexican drug cartels He was killed in a military operation Tuesday Colombia&#8217;s president called it a &#8220;very important strike&#8221; (CNN) &#8212; The Colombian military killed a rebel leader who was a liaison with Mexican drug cartels, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said. The military operation near Colombia&#8217;s border with Ecuador, in the department of Putumayo, happened on Tuesday, the president said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Colombian military kills FARC leader - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/16\/colombian-military-kills-farc-leader\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Colombian military kills FARC leader - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Soldiers patrol an area in eastern Colombia where FARC rebels allegedly kidnapped 22 oil contractors in early March. 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