Tuesday, September 30, 2008

OFAC Designates 8 FARC Front-men

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has placed eight members of the FARC's 'International Commission' under ban as "...providing material support to a narco-terrorist organization".

The Official Notification from OFAC

One by one, cut them off from being able to act.

6 comments:

Purr said...

LDG--

You never cease to amaze me--

Purr said...

I read the article again-- good news! Glad to see Washington is still focused on this!

Was Venezuela honoring Manuel Marulanda in the last few days? I saw on Adam's twitter where he wrote his Venezuelan friends were upset because Marulanda was being honored? Didn't that guy die in March?

I looked for the news on this but I could not find anything stating Marulanda was being honored...

L.Douglas Garrett said...

Here's the report on the Marulanda statue:

AP on Marulanda statue

Purr said...

they sang FARC anthems??????

No wonder the people are upset--

where the heck did you find that? I was searching and typing in key words last night looking for something on what you posted!

thanks soooooooooooo much!!

L.Douglas Garrett said...

re: "Where the heck...?"

I had it in files as of the day A. Housley made his comment about hearing of it (comment on his Twitter). Did a quick workup on Continental Bolivarian Coordinator and Venezuelan Bolivarian Coordinator as well, just in case he were to ask. They (VBC) are part of the ultra-left in Venezuelan politics.

...yes, one can be *more* leftist than Hugo. ((boggle))

Purr said...

I just read a student opposition leader was gunned down in Caracas, Wednesday..

I see Silva and Chavez are becoming good friends-- they just signed seven new agreements a couple days ago.