MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Weapons from 27 different countries found in Colombian terrorist camps

The Colombian government only in 2009 sent out, --through Interpol-- 209 requests on the origin of weapons and explosives.

Weapons captured by the Colombian forces from the terrorist cocaine-funded organization FARC during the last ten years originated in at least 27 different countries and the Colombian government has requested help in finding out how they reached the jungle war.

According to a report in the Sunday editions of the country’s main daily El Tiempo, the list includes arms and explosives from Bulgaria, China, Korea, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Central Europe, North Korea, US, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela among others.

The newspaper claims that during 2009 the Colombian government through Interpol has sent 209 requests to 27 different countries on the origin of weapons and explosives found or captured in FARC encampments.

“We’ve received replies from 177 requests, but there are others which we know before hand that they will not reply”, said one of the Colombian officials in charge of the investigation.

As to how the weapons make their way to the FARC groups, the report points out to the border areas with Brazil, Panama and Venezuela, as well as “the so called Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil) where light planes arrive with Colombian drugs and return with weapons and ammunition”

The report was published when Colombia and Venezuela are involved in a new controversy regarding claims that some portable rocket propellers allegedly purchased by Venezuela from Sweden ended up in the hands of the FARC groups.