Colombian "Farcpolítica"
Scandal Hits Nicaragua
Nicaragua's President
Daniel Ortega is under
scrutiny for supposed
links to Colombia's FARC
guerillas. In one
"partially decoded"
February e-mail
supposedly recovered
from the computer of
late FARC commander Raúl
Reyes, fellow FARC
director Iván Márquez
wrote that Ortega could
send via Venezuela's
Hugo Chávez "some old
caucheras they are
keeping there [in
Nicaragua], and he
believes still
function."
Cauchera is said to be
code for rifles.
Also named as a
potential arms supplier
is one "Ramiro," of El
Salvador's
left-opposition FMLN,
identified by Spain's El
País as Luis Merino,
Communist Party
representative to the
Central American
Parliament. Most of the
figures are identified
through code names. "Ángel"
supposedly refers to
Chávez. "El Amigo" is
Víctor Sheiman, a
high-ranking security
official in Belarus.
Last week, Ortega sent a
Nicaraguan military
transport plane to
Ecuador and pick up two
Colombian women who
survived the March 1
raid - Doris
Torres Bohórquez, 21,
and Martha Pérez
Gutiérrez, 24. The two
women have been granted
amnesty in Nicaragua for
"humanitarian" reasons.
The Nicaraguan
government is providing
the women with housing
and medical attention.
Ortega has already given
asylum to Lucía Morett,
a Mexican university
student who also
survived the raid, and
who arrived in Nicaragua
in April. Four other
Mexican students and
ex-students from the
Autonomous National
University of Mexico
were killed in the raid.
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