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Jury convicts FARC leader

A Colombian peasant who rose to become the financial chief of a powerful squadron of the leftist FARC guerrillas was convicted Tuesday by a federal jury on charges of conspiring to send more than five tons of cocaine to the United States. Nayibe Rojas was the first high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, convicted of drug running by a U.S. federal court, although the U.S. and Colombian governments have long alleged that the FARC was deeply involved in every facet of Colombia’s cocaine industry. Full Story