Now I do not know if anyone will be able to receive a bounty from the DoS Narcotics Rewards Program, because Biojo was worth about $2.5 million dollars.(see the reward below)
The $500,000 divided up between these three folks must have come from the government of Colombia? Who knows, but either way, good on them for providing the tips. –Matt
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Domingo Biojo.
Colombia: 3 share $500K for tips on bombed rebels
09/21/2010
Colombia’s national police chief says three informants will divide a reward of up to $500,000 for leading authorities to the rebel camp where the military killed at least 22 insurgents in an air raid.
Gen. Oscar Naranjo also said Monday that a prominent veteran of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, was killed in Sunday’s pre-dawn bombing near the border with Ecuador.
He identified the slain rebel as Domingo Biojo (Bee-oh-HO), a 55-year-old who had spent half his life in the FARC.
Officials say the rebels killed Sunday were from the same FARC unit that killed eight police officers nine days earlier.
Sunday’s attack marked Colombia’s biggest military success since President Juan Manuel Santos took office Aug. 7.
Story here.
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Narcotics Rewards Program: Sixto Antonio Cabana Guillen
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
WANTED
Also known as “Domingo Bioho”
Date of Birth: 06/15/1955
Place of Birth: Cienaga, Magadalena, Colombia
Height: 1.77 meters,
Weight: Unknown
Hair: Black, Eyes: Brown
The FARC is a foreign terrorist organization in Colombia that was established in 1964 with a Marxist philosophy and the declared intent to overthrow the democratic Colombian government. The FARC is Latin America’s oldest, largest, most capable and best-equipped insurgency — with perhaps 12,000 fighters and thousands of supporters, mostly in rural areas. In addition to its attacks on Colombian military, political and economic targets, the FARC’s various fronts are deeply involved in narcotics trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, murder and other criminal activities. Today, the FARC controls the majority of cocaine manufacturing and distribution within Colombia, and is responsible for much of the world’s cocaine supply and what is trafficked to the United States.