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  • One email sent to Mr. Reyes from the FARC's legendary founder and leader, Manuel Marulanda, said the guerrilla's ruling secretariat had agreed that commanders of several FARC fronts would pool resources to provide Mr. Correa's emissaries with $100,000 in campaign funds.

    Report Links Ecuador's President With Colombian Guerrillas Jose de Cordoba 2011

  • In the light of today, that was an image almost prescient because it marked the former guerrilla's loss of leadership in international life.

    Yoani Sanchez: Fidel Castro and Ahmadinejad Need Each Other Yoani Sanchez 2012

  • It was during this decline that Mr. Cano emerged as the guerrilla's top commander.

    Colombian Insurgents Vow a Battle Darcy Crowe 2011

  • Their first tactic — disavowing that the commanders who went to Kabul speak for the Taliban itself — is straight out of the guerrilla's playbook: By creating the illusion of a gap between their negotiators and fighters (think Sinn Fein and the IRA), they permit the negotiators to maintain a veneer of credibility without compromising their military options.

    The Trouble With Talking to the Taliban Bret Stephens 2010

  • Santos, a former defense minister who has close ties to the Obama administration, called the guerrilla's death a "historic moment for Colombia" in comments at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

    Colombian rebel leader reportedly killed in military strike 2010

  • In the house below him, guerrilla's smuggle drugs, rape women and kill one another.

    Mihir’s Anticipated 2010 Books Liviu 2010

  • Santos, a former defense minister who has close ties to the Obama administration, called the guerrilla's death a "historic moment for Colombia" in comments at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

    Colombian rebel leader reportedly killed in military strike 2010

  • Santos, a former defense minister who has close ties to the Obama administration, called the guerrilla's death a "historic moment for Colombia" in comments at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

    Colombian rebel leader reportedly killed in military strike 2010

  • Salvadoreans head to the polls Sunday to elect a new president, and a former television journalist is giving the country's former guerrilla's their best chance at the presidency in 15 years.

    El Salvador Elections 2009

  • Guerrillas win by not losing; for all practical purposes, a stalement is to the guerrilla's advantage.

    Iraq 2005: Welcome to the Quagmire 2008

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