On Mar. 1, 2008, Colombia’s military killed a top rebel leader and 16 of his comrades in a predawn air strike against his jungle camp in neighboring Ecuador.
The death of the commander known by his alias Raul Reyes was “the biggest blow against the FARC in its history,” said Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, referring to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Bloomberg reported.
Reyes, who was wanted for extradition by the United States on drug-trafficking charges, was a Marxist union leader at a Nestle dairy plant in Caqueta province before going underground and joining the FARC decades ago.
He was the FARC’s most visible spokesman, regularly delivering anti-capitalist missives on the group’s website, and one of the most influential voices of the 7-member Secretariat.
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