Helping the Hostage-Takers: Switzerland and the Reyes Computer Files (English translation)

Secret documents show that the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (EDA) supported the machinations of the Colombian terror organization, the FARC. The envoy of the Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey cooperated with the hostage-takers. The EDA even tolerated the presence of a FARC office in Switzerland.

1 May 2008 will go down as a dark day in the history of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC. Shortly after midnight, five remote-controlled high-tech bombs struck a jungle encampment of the Colombian guerilla. The camp was located in Ecuadorian territory, 1.8 kilometers from the border. Twenty-two people were killed in the nighttime attack by the Colombian armed forces. As Colombian troops entered the camp, they found Raúl Reyes, the “Foreign Minister” of the FARC, among the dead.
Reyes was regarded as the number two man in the FARC. For most Colombians, his death was a happy event. Founded in 1964, the FARC have long since left behind any aura of Robin Hood style h ...