Another FARC Commander Bites the Dust!

from Noticias 24

Bogata, 3 Jun (EFE). - The Columbian Army has brought down alias "El Abuelo" (the Grandpa), responsible for th Security of the Maximum Leader of the FARC, "Alfonso Cano", and in charge of finance, informed an official source shortly after President Juan Manuel Santos said that this Saturday he would announce a "Great Blow" against the guerrillas.

According to the source, who asked for anonymity until this information gets officially announced by President Santos, Alirio Rojas Bocanegra, alias "El Abuelo", "lead part of the forces that protected Cano," including the "finances of the FARC Central Bloque", because he was held in the confidences and was a right hand man to the rebel Maximum Leader.

This guerrilla was in charge of coordinating numerous security rings of "Alfonso Cano" and had under his control 16 FARC structures.

The Central Bloque, which managed finances, is the most important part of the guerrilla group that has been fighting for almost 50 years against the Columbian state, and is directed by Cano himself, whose real name is Guillermo Leon Saenz, and whom assumed the leadership after the death of "Manuel Marulanda Velez" alias "Tirofijo" in 2008.

By all appearance, "El Abuelo", with 23 years of service in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) and who directed the "Miller Salcedo" Company, was brought down in the Department of Tolima (central), where he was an instructor of a training center.

President Santos had previously announced that he had advanced a "Great Blow to the FARC", but the results of which would be announced this Saturday when the Minister of Defense, Rodrigo Rivera, had also called a press conference.

"We are confirming a new great blow to the FARC. Tomorrow, in and Agreement for Prosperity, we'll detail the results," communicated Santos through his Twitter profile.