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Colombia’s FARC Rebel Leaders Clashing Over
Money
By Alexander Cuadros
(Bloomberg) -- Leaders of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are
clashing over money and the direction the
country’s biggest guerrilla group should
take, former Defense Minister Juan Manuel
Santos said, citing intelligence reports.
The rebels’ leader, Alfonso Cano, and
second-in-command Jorge Briceno, known by
his alias “Mono Jojoy,” are feuding over
finances as Colombia’s armed forces close in
on them, according to Santos.
“Based on intelligence I’ve seen from the
past months, there are some disagreements
between these two,” Santos told Bogota-based
Caracol radio. “Their financial structure
has been hit hard. Everyone’s asking for
money, people are complaining.”
Since taking office in 2002, President
Alvaro Uribe has led a campaign that has cut
the rebels’ numbers by half, according to
the government. The FARC, as the rebel group
is known, fund their activities mainly
through cocaine trafficking.
“The FARC’s command is very, very weakened,
with communication and coordination
problems,” Santos said. “If these two
disappear, one would think the structure of
the FARC would be left very shaky.”
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