Top Colombian Rebel Extradited to the U.S.
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Top Marxist rebel Ricardo Palmera was extradited to the United States on Friday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face U.S. drug and terrorism charges, officials said.
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Most of the cocaine that enters the US has passed through the hands of Colombia's Farc rebels, a US official says.
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Bogota - Former drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, head of the powerful Cali drug cartel, was en route to the United States early on Saturday after being handed over to American anti-narcotics officials the night before, a Colombian official said.
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A commander of Colombia's largest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at a Bogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday on cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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The suspected head of a Colombian cocaine cartel extradited to the United States to face trial.
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By Michael Christie MIAMI  - The most powerful drug lord everextradited by Colombia appeared before a U.S. judge on Monday,and his lawyer said he would fight U.S. charges that he ran hismultibillion-dollar business from a Colombian jail cell.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The chief of internationalrelations for Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, who oncesought support from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was arrestedafter a months-long manhunt, police said on Wednesday.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia said on Friday that atop Marxist guerrilla leader may avoid extradition to theUnited States if his rebel group frees 63 hostages, includingthree Americans and one German.
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Colombian police say they have arrested a man on a list of the drug-traffickers most wanted by the US. The US says Dagoberto Florez Rios is a member of the Norte del Valle cartel, which is estimated to smuggle
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A top Colombian guerrilla leader was convicted on Tuesday in a U.S. court on charges she conspired to import cocaine into the United States to raise cash to buy weapons and ammunition.
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Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the most powerful Colombian drug trafficker ever extradited to the United States, said he was innocent in an interview made shortly before he was flown to Miami over ther weekend.
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BOGOTA/CARACAS  - A top Colombian guerrilla was  protected by Venezuelan officials before his capture, an action  that has triggered the worst dispute in years between the  Andean countries, Colombia said on Sunday.
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Colombia's most notorious cocaine trafficker, Diego Montoya, was captured on Monday after a long manhunt in which the United States offered $5 million for information leading to his arrest, the government said.
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CARACAS -- A top Colombian rebel captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela, possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said yesterday. Through his statement, Venezuela's government appeared to be moving toward asserting that Rodrigo Granda, the foreign relations chief of Colombia's FARC rebel group, was kidnapped in the ...
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A Colombian rebel leader in U.S. custody on federal drug and terrorism charges was ordered held without bond Wednesday pending a trial.
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A senior Colombian rebel leader must remain in custody in the US until his trial,  a judge orders.
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The Justice Department is offering leniency for a Colombian rebel leader if guerrillas release three Americans from a jungle prison camp unharmed.