Its not fiction: the FARC attacks Arauca and flees to Venezuela

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http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/N/no_es_ficcion_farc_y_el_eln_atacan_en_arauca__y_huyen_a_venezuela/no_es_ficcion_farc_y_el_eln_atacan_en_arauca__y_huyen_a_venezuela.asp

original story in Spanish above



English summary http://www.insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/2399-farc-eln-use-venezuela-as-base-for-attacks-report

Although both governments have downplayed the presence of Colombia rebel groups in Venezuela, a report from El Colombiano details how FARC and ELN guerrillas use the neighboring country as a base to carry out attacks within Colombia.

According to an investigation by El Colombiano, both the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) conduct attacks in the Colombian province of Arauca, then slip across the border into Venezuela.

Arauca residents told the newspaper that the rebels carry out kidnappings and extortion in the region, and are not pursued by authorities of either country.

El Colombiano cites Colombian military intelligence sources as saying that both the FARC and ELN have camps across the border in the Venezuelan municipality of Elorza, where guerrilla leaders such as the ELN’s Giraldo Quinchia, alias "Pablito," and the FARC’s Noe Suarez Rojas, alias "Grannobles," are known to operate.

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nothing new to most of us.

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1. 'Nothing new to most of us' - sad, but true n/t