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He dealt a major blow from within to Colombia’s leftist rebels, killing a member of the FARC’s ruling junta with a shot to the head and toting the man’s severed hand out of the jungle as proof.
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Elda Mosquera Garcia, alias “Karina,” a former rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who surrendered to authorities last year, arrives for a press interview at the secret police headquarters in Bogota, Tuesday, March 17, 2009.
