The Farc Cartel Volume I

The Farc Cartel,

Volume I

Finance of Communist Terrorism against Colombia

Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarín Pulido

www.luisvillamarin.com

The Farc Cartel, Vol. I.

Finance of Communist Terrorism Against Colombia

Original titule in Spanish El Cartel de las Farc (I)

Finanzas del narcoterrorismo comunista contra Colombia

© Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarín Pulido

© Ediciones Luis Alberto Villamarín Pulido

Tel 9082426010

New York City, NY-USA

First Spanish Edition, June 1996

Second Spanish Edition, October 1996-

First English Edition, November 2015

Director of English Version

Captain (reserve) Colombian Army Alfredo de Zubiría M.

Publisher: Smashwords Inc.

ISBN 9781370536238

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EXCERPTS

PROLOGUE

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

ANNEX 1

ANNEX 2

ANEXO 3

ANNEX 4

ANNEX 5

ANNEX 6

ANNEX 7

BIBLIOGRAPHY

EXCERPTS

MILITARY VISION OF THE FARC IN A SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT

A social science teacher in this capital included two new titles in the reading list for his 7th grade students: one is The Farc Cartel by Lt. Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarín Pulido, with a prologue by General Harold Bedoya which was published recently; the other is In Hell. Both books refer to the fact that the self-named FARC are the third drug cartel in the country and a guerrilla group that tortures its members,

Newspaper El Espectador 24th September 1996, page 7

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FARC PRESENCE REPORTED IN PERÚ

According to the Lima newspaper El Expreso, an analysis by the Colombian Army Lt. Colonel Luis Alberto Villamarín Pulido assures that the FARC cartel has extended its activities to other countries. In Perú there is a clandestine drug laboratory with a landing strip in the area of Cocará, and another 16 installations in Peruvian territory producing pure cocaine.

Lima: EFE Press Agency

El Tiempo Newspaper 2nd October 1996, Page 7a

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Please convey to your units and personnel that we applaud your actions to uphold Colombian democracy. Your soldiers face an enemy which for over forty years has displayed continuous hostility to the democratic aspirations of the Colombian people.

Letter from General McCaffrey (Director of DEA-USA) to General Bedoya

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Manipulation of those engaged in illicit crops by subversive groups and drug barons is a reality that is both worrying and evident. The growers base is not made up of traditional peasants or long-standing settlers. The vast majority are fortune hunters who believe that cocaine and poppy are good business... the Armed Forces daily face this ominous expression of the symbiosis between subversion and drug traffic.

Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero, Colombian Minister of Defence

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US Congress says FARC is the third Cartel

Benjamin Gilman, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, opened yesterday's session on the sale of helicopters by speaking of the danger the FARC represented for Colombia and the USA. Gelbard supported him by announcing that Colombian guerrillas are planting poppy in Venezuela and possibly in Ecuador. Ever since the anti-drug war began in the 80s up to the present, the United States has not believed in the guerrilla-narcos association. This opinion is beginning to change.

El Tiempo Newspaper, 12th September 1996 Page 7A

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Economy with the Guerrilla

"Kidnapping of 2,300 hostages brought them $350 million between 1991 and 1994, the study estimates.

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L´Express Magazine - France

They were called the FARC, a communist guerrilla fighting whoever was in power, and now baptized the cocaine cartel. Financed by drugs, this corrupt guerrilla movement still retains the support of western powers, and even ill-informed charity organizations".

PROLOGUE

The struggle of man against totalitarianism is simply the struggle of memory against oblivion, says the writer Milan Kundera.

Since we have allowed crime and oppression to take hold in the void of our collective memory, we must now start to remember everything.

We have forgotten that for almost two decades, a vast and complex network of organized crime has been operating in our countryside. Successively we have named it subversion, guerrilla or rebels. In reality and regardless of their dress, they are just gangsters, whether they wear a poncho or a necktie .

Their business is based on the systematic development of drug traffic in all its forms and this has brought them vast wealth. They survived all the cartel wars: cartel vs. cartel, cartel vs. state, and cartel vs. the world; today they are the most powerful of all the cartels.

To achieve this position they bet on deceit and oblivion, and they apparently made a good bet. This book is a brief account, telling the naked truth, in order to ex-pose and document the specter of a hallucinatory criminal organization that is murdering our future.

GENERAL HAROLD BEDOYA PIZARRO

Commander in Chief of the Colombian Army

FOREWORD

To contact the Cali cartel, proceed as follows: use radio frequency 6,560 for meeting and 6875 for reserve; beeper92 3334666, code Hare 5230, or 92661866 code Snail 1462.

This appears in documents circulating among the FARC Fronts posted in the Colombian mountains and jungle, and who make coca, poppy and marihuana deals with the drug mafia.

Furthermore, in the same document, the «rebels» state that at this plenary we highlight the presence of Comrade Manuel (Marulanda Velez) we greet him and feel sure he will impart more assurance and realism to the approach and preparation of the Southern Block's politico-military plan to conquer the New Colombia

The alliance between the FARC and the Cali Cartel was set out in the documents seized from the XIV and XV Fronts on 31st January 1996 by troops of the 12th Brigade in Paujil (Caquetá).

These documents contained compromising information such as VHF radio frequencies, beeper and tele-phone numbers of people associated with the Cali Cartel

and involved in drug deals with the FARC. This clearly corroborates the mentioned alliance.

As of July 1995, the Southern Block drew up its criminal plans and these were appraised during the plenary with the confirmed presence of the FARC leader.

As was to be expected, these projects were only partially performed because of pressure from the Army. Nevertheless, the accounting entries, and comments contained in the documents seized show that the threat against institutional stability is serious. Likewise, plans to boost logistics and recruiting via drug profits really exist, as can be deduced from these comments in the same document:

Ten economic checkpoints were set up, they yielded $529 million pesos, including US$415,000. Financial work by the XIV and XV Fronts produced two thou-sand and sixteen million five hundred thousand pesos ($2,016,500,000.oo), and this completes the first phase of the four million dollars (4,000 million pesos) target, we advanced four hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred million pesos ($416,500,000,000.-) for the second phase

Currently the Southern Block has $1,442 million pesos (including $535 million that Pedro gave to comrade Raúl Reyes) to pay the four million dollar quota to the Secretariat

This economic carrousel whose mind-boggling amounts are almost impossible to pronounce and write in Colombian pesos, only refers to two of the almost sixty Fronts of the FARC Cartel. It also gives an idea of the rich pickings made by the Party and the armed group commit-ting crimes in the name of Marxist-Leninism, while at the same time participating in legitimate politics under the umbrella of democracy.

Given human nature, it is reasonable to suppose the rebel leaders will continue with their lust for power for some time, particularly when it serves the double purpose of personal gain and strengthening their criminal groups.

One of the conclusions reached at the Southern Block plenary was that:

In view of the imminent glyphosate fumigation, we must actively direct the masses to stage a civic strike, with a platform of claims directed at the central and departmental governments. The 3,198,890,100 pesos needed to support the Fronts for three years and purchase 500 rifles, each with 500 cartridges shall come from: extortion, money coming from transport companies, traders, ranchers etc.

It is inferred from this decision that drug income should continue to be sent to the «rebel» Raúl Reyes at the Secretariat, without this meaning a suspension of blackmail and kidnapping, since all monies received serve the double purpose of enrichment and provisions.

Conclusions of the meeting of the XV From" be-longing to the Southern Block include-.

«Finances for the period 15th August-24th December 1994 show $ 138,000,000 (US$ 130,000) for coca. We consider the financial commission has obtained good results with the voluntary contributions. However, these are insufficient to meet our quota. Therefore, we will increase intelligence in search of other sources: blocking coca on the Puerto Rico-Florencia route since they are evading the tax, and we will get something more"

The document refers to instructions given by the leaders to continue looking for illicit funds, aimed at reaching politico-military targets within the guidelines of what they call «targets for economic withholdings. (Refer annex 6, Caguán general income).

The FARC XV Front controls secret landing strips where aircraft carry cocaine to the United States after first coordinating this with the Cali cartel. There are strips at River Orteguaza, Buenos Aires, La Union Peneya and Mata de Guadua. Documents seized by the troops indicate these strips are surrounded by mines to «deter the Army"

The Finance chief of the XIV and XV Fronts is Juaco Constituyente, and he is in charge of 16 kitchens or laboratories, he is also known under the alias Chamizo. Confiscated documents show that the guerilla, violating the most elemental human rights of small farmers in the region, took over coca leaf crops at a farm belonging to someone having the nickname «Chucho Freckles». These were left in the care of a brother of Juaco Constituyente.

This case shows how the members of Tirofijo's cartel first force a small farmer to grow coca on his land, then chase him out under the threat of death.

The FARC Cartel infrastructure has all the organizational mal and control mechanisms of the international cocaine mafia, aggravated by the fact that it threatens peasant farmers, taking over their plots of land and forcing them to work in the «white gold» business, and at the same time enrolling them in terrorist activities via their so called Bolivarian Militia and the Communist Party.

The criminal acts of the FARC cartel are not restricted to Colombia as can be seen from the comment:

In Peru there is a landing strip and laboratory ;it a place called Cocará. It's next to the job handled recently. There's a colleague working there"

In another example of their insatiable appetite for money, some rebels comment that: «some mafia members propose to pay the tax in dollars.»

Guidelines to boost finances encourage the Cartel Fronts to:

"1. Consolidate the branches of San Antonio, La Máquina, Unión Peneya.

2. Charge $25,000 pesos (25 dollars) per kilo of base, $35,000 pesos (35 dollars) per kilo of crystal, $3,000,000 (3,000 dollars) per landing strip, and coca planters with over ten acres must pay $200,000 (200 dollars) for each additional 2.4 acres.

3. Have a ledger sheet for general income, and another for disbursements, showing all movements in detail.

4. Consolidate this work with the middlemen, mafia members, contacts, ranchers, businessmen and those producing coca.

5. Every Monday report the income coming from each market place and indicating activity involved.

6. Work with the masses exclusively to organize them and win them over so they support us in this important work and help resolve problems when this is within their capacity"

This is the control the FARC exercises on other drug Cartels with the intent of increasing the large income coming from drugs, kidnapping, blackmail and hold-ups.

The impact of the undeniable presence