- Omaira Rojas Cabrera
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Anayibe Rojas Valderrama, also known as Omaira Rojas Cabrera (nom de guerre: Sonia) born in the Colombian town of Palestina, Huila Department, on June 16, 1967. She comes from a low-income peasant family and had only completed two years of middle school before joining the FARC guerrilla by the late 1980s.
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Capture
She was captured by the Colombian Military on February 10, 2004 in a location called Peñas Coloradas, jurisdiction in the Municipality of Cartagena de Chairá and was taken to the Larandia AB to be interrogated mainly about the three Americans the FARC had kidnapped and about FARC's Secretariat. She was later transferred to many other locations for security reasons.
Extradition
Sonia being out processed by Colombian authorities before her extradition to the United States.The United States accused "Sonia" of directly negotiating illegal drugs deliveries to Peruvian and Brazilian drug traffickers. Sonia was handed to U.S. officials on March 9, 2004 at Barranquilla's Airport in northern Colombia.
U.S. Trial
On February 20, 2007, Sonia was convicted of drug charges in a Washington D.C. court. [1]
References
FARC-EP Organization Secretariat Timoleón Jiménez • Iván Márquez • Joaquín Gómez • Mauricio Jaramillo • Pablo Catatumbo • Pastor Alape
(Substitutes in line: Bertulfo Álvarez)Other notable personnel Manuel Marulanda Vélez (founder) † • Jacobo Arenas (founder) † • Simón Trinidad (captured) • Raúl Reyes † • Mono Jojoy † • Alfonso Cano † • Efraín Guzmán † • Iván Ríos † • Sonia (captured) • Tomás Medina Caracas † • Martín Caballero † • Rodrigo Granda • Iván Vargas (captured) • Fabián Ramírez • Carlos Antonio Lozada • Marcos Calarcá • Andrés París • Karina (surrendered) • Romaña • César (captured)Characteristics History • Structure • Attacks • PCCC • Patriotic Union (Colombia) • Front Ricardo Franco • List of political hostages}
Categories:- Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Women in 20th-century warfare
- Women in war in South America
- Colombian guerrillas
- Colombian people stubs
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