LatinNews Daily - 23 September 2008

Development: On September 22 TV news reported that the country's government had found another PC with personal data of 9,387 members of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Significance: The information found in the USB revealed the structure of the Bloque Oriental, one of the biggest components of the guerrilla group. It revealed the 'life' of 9,387 guerrilla members, their personal data, photographs; real names; aliases; the numbers of their identity documents; academic attainments; family data; personal belongings; and place of recruitment. It is also recorded that 1,126 guerrilla members had died in the last few years, another 113 have been executed, and 286 died while trying to escape.

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