Peace talks between the FARC and the government of Colombia resumed last month in Havana. court last March to participating in the hostage-taking. Navarette Beltrán is the third member of the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, to be convicted for his role in the hostage-taking, according to the DOJ.Īnother FARC rebel, Alexander Beltran Herrera, pleaded guilty in U.S. The three Americans were held for the next five years, and the DOJ said that for two of those years the hostages were under the control of the FARC unit in which Navarette Beltrán was an armed guard. defense contractors Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell in 2003 after their plane made an emergency landing during an anti-drug surveillance mission. Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement. Betancourt and the three Americans, the rebel group holds more than 50 kidnapping victims that they have deemed exchangeable for other concessions. But he still hasn't been able to get Leia to give up the classified information. “With this guilty plea, Diego Alfonso Navarrete Beltran has admitted his participation in the hostage-taking and captivity of three Americans by the FARC, a Colombian terrorist organization,” Assistant U.S. In this second volume of the Rebel Force series, the Empire's deadly assassin, X-7, has gained Princess Leia's trust and is closer than ever to discovering the identity of his target. He now faces the possibility of a maximum sentence of life in prison for hostage-taking, in a sentencing hearing to be held in November, according to the U.S.
District Court of the District of Colombia. Navarete Beltrán, 42, had initially pleaded not guilty upon his extradition. citizens hostage in Colombia in 2003.ĭiego Alfonso Navarete Beltrán, who was extradited from Colombia to the United States in 2014, entered the guilty plea in the U.S. – A former FARC rebel pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S.
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