Professor Is Among 8 Arrested in Colombia in Connection With Alleged Guerrilla Activities

by E Wayne Ross on November 17, 2008

The Chronicle News: Professor Is Among 8 Arrested in Colombia in Connection With Alleged Guerrilla Activities

Bogotá, Colombia — The police have arrested at least eight people, including a professor at a public university, in connection with an investigation into alleged guerrilla activities on Colombian campuses.

The investigation was triggered by the military’s capture in February of a flash memory stick from a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, guerrillas who have been fighting for decades to overthrow Colombia’s elected governments and are labeled terrorists by the United States and Colombian governments. The information on the memory stick included the identities of thousands of guerrilla agents, including 55 doing subversive work at the nation’s universities, according to El Tiempo (in Spanish), a newspaper.