Posted on 05/07/2003 7:02:49 PM PDT by miltonim
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:31:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BOGOTA, Colombia - For the first time, President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday ordered a leftist Colombian rebel extradited to the United States. Nelson Vargas Rueda faces murder charges in the 1999 slaying of three American activists.
Vargas is one of six members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, indicted in April 2002 in federal court in Washington for the murders of Terence Freitas, 24, of Los Angeles, Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, of New York City and Lahe'ena'e Gay, 39, of Pahoa, Hawaii. Washinawatok was a Menominee Indian originally from Wisconsin.
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