Colombia Sends Armed-Group Boss From Peace Talks to Face US Drug Charges
- On Friday, Colombian authorities extradited Geovany Andres Rojas, known as "Spider," to the United States. Police escorted the reputed leader of the Border Commands faction to a Bogota air base for the US-bound flight.
- President Abelardo de la Espriella, who took office August 7, ordered the extradition after canceling peace talks with illegal armed groups. He determined Rojas made no "verifiable contributions" to peace, vowing to dismantle what he calls a "false peace."
- A U.S. federal grand jury in San Diego indicted Rojas on cocaine conspiracy and narco-terrorism charges in March 2025. Former President Gustavo Petro had suspended the extradition to facilitate peace negotiations, but the Supreme Court ruled the charges were ordinary crimes.
- The Border Commands faction has fragmented since Rojas's arrest, with about 60 members reportedly seeking asylum in Venezuela, Cuba, and Norway. Colombian prosecutors also charged Rojas over 13 armed attacks in Caqueta.
- De la Espriella has signed 73 extradition orders in his first 32 days, marking this transfer as the first of a senior commander. His administration now prioritizes military offensives to retake remote territories from illegal armed groups.
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Bogotá, Sep 25 (EFE).- The Colombian government extradited to the United States this Friday Geovany Andrés Rojas, alias Araña, who was chief peace negotiator of a dissenting former FARC, in an unusual act led by President Abelardo de la Espriella at a military base in Barranquilla. Rojas - chief of the Commandos [...] The entry Colombia extradites to the US the former chief peace negotiator of a FARC dissent was first published in HolaNews.
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Colombia has extradited a former FARC leader suspected of drug trafficking to the US. This is reported by news agency Reuters, citing police sources. The person in question is reportedly Geovany Andres Rojas, the alleged leader of the guerrilla group Comandos de la Frontera.
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BOGOTA, Sept 25 - Colombia has extradited an alleged drug-trafficking leader from a dissident faction of the former FARC rebel group to the United States, three police sources told Reuters on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Now on g1 Colombia extradited on Friday (25) one of the main leaders of a FARC dissident group, according to three police sources heard by Reuters. It is the first extradition of a high-ranking commander of an armed group during the government of President Abelardo De La Espriella. He will be sent to the United States. Geovany Andrés Rojas, known by the codename "Araña" ("Spider", in Portuguese), is identified as the leader of the Border Comman…
There, President Abelardo de la Espriella will make a statement on his side before handing him over to Marshal gringos agents. The post Begins Extradition of Spider to the U.S. First will stop at Barranquilla appeared first on La Silla Empty.
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