Weekly Report - 13 January 2004

COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: First Farc `head' falls, in Quito

Andean 24 April 2007 Modified: 13 January 2004 298 views

If, as US military sources have suggested, the Colombian government is pursuing a `decapitation' policy towards the Farc guerrillas, then it has clocked up its first real success. On 2 January the Ecuadorean police picked up in Quito the man known as Simón Trinidad, a member of the top leadership of Farc, reputedly in charge of their finances.

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