Fleeing Crisis, Some Venezuelans Are Recruited By Rebel Forces Fighting In Colombia

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In Colombia, where about one-third of the more than 3 million Venezuelans who have fled their nation's deep economic crisis have settled, officials say some Venezuelan refugees are being recruited into Colombia's guerrilla groups.

 

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'Plaintiffs allege that Defendants are members of a RICO enterprise composed of illegal narcotics traffickers and Defendants' distributors for the purpose of laundering proceeds of illegal narcotics sales and illegally smuggling liquor into Colombia.'

He was American, one of the best known coke dealer party boys at University. To my surprise he plopped down next to me on Maracaibo to Miami flight in 1984. Later I learned his jeans were lined w uncut cocaine straight up from Columbia. The router met plane drops but they'd met.

'Ferry’s Violentology project was awarded the inaugural Tim Hetherington Grant in 2011 by World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch.'

Killing Pablo Escobar didn't end narco-terrorism anymore than ending The Charlie Wilson War stopped Osama bin Laden.

If you want to understand how this came to be, intereview 'Santa' in prison. He fell in love with my Venezuelan roommate and met Aruban smuggler at out University while a disguised router for cartel. He suddenly vanished in '83. Then we learned ..

“let’s flee socialism and hook up with the communists!” makes perfect sense

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