Through a document Senator Ted Cruz, of the Republican Party, asked the United States Congress to include Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba the list of the Asset Control Office, thus, his name would be part of the long list of people associated with terrorist organizations.
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In addition to Córdoba -elected by the Historical Pact- Cruz asks that Rodrigo Granda and Sandra Ramírez Lobo, of the Partido Comunes, be included.
With the bill, Cruz seeks to rename the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as a terrorist group, this because despite the 2016 Peace Agreement and the delivery of weapons, today the dissidents continue to operate.
The document promoted by the republican says that “In November 2021, the Biden administration excluded the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia from the list of terrorist organizations, under the INA Immigration and Nationality Act, and as a global terrorism designee.
The following day the Treasury Department removed 275 individuals and organizations associated with the FARC from the OFAC list”.
The text also details that “47 members of the Farc were pointed out as being responsible for the forced recruitment of minors for the conflict together with child trafficking. Five of these individuals were sanctioned by the United States government for their association with the FARC, until the Biden government removed them by excluding that group as a terrorist organization. With that decision, a sanction that was about to be applied to two more individuals was also stopped”.
About Piedad Córdoba the text also says that “She is credibly accused of having performed leadership functions in the FARC under the name of war ‘Teodora'” and that “recently, she was detained in Honduras for not disclosing $68,000 in cash that she was transporting to Colombia.”
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