Former Colombian rebels blame US for leader’s arrest
BOGOTA, Colombia — Leaders of Colombia’s disbanded FARC rebel army accused the U.S. on Tuesday of trapping a prominent rebel negotiator on a drug warrant in order to sabotage the country’s already struggling peace process.
The shock arrest Monday of Seuxis Hernandez, a blind former peace negotiator best known by his alias Jesús Santrich, played into fears that the former guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia haven’t cut ties to the country’s flourishing criminal underworld.