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Colombia detains alleged FARC arms provider from Venezuela (auto translated)
http://www.novanacional.com/nota.asp?n=2012_8_28&id=30253&id_tiponota=8The Colombian security forces arrested 14 suspected collaborators of the guerrillas of the FARC, including a logistics chief weapons smuggled across the border with Venezuela, the National Police reported Friday. Catches were recorded in two operations, one in a troubled area of Cauca (southwest) and the other in the Arauca (eastern) border with Venezuela.
In the municipality of Arauquita (Arauca) was arrested Thursday Danilo Benavidez, aka 'Carrancho', considered a chief logistical support for the Tenth Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC communist).
The organization also accused the detainee to participate in the killing of 11 soldiers in a guerrilla ambush in March in Arauquita.
In another joint operation between Army and Police were arrested in the last hours in Cauca "13 people collaborating in various terrorist actions" of the FARC, the Ministry of Defence reported in another newsletter.
