Anayibe Rojas Valderrama, also known as Omaira Rojas Cabrera (
nom de guerre: Sonia) born in the
Colombian town of
Palestina,
Huila Department
Huila () is one of the departments of Colombia. It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva, Colombia, Neiva.
Demography and Ethnography
Huila is a department that has a population of 1,122,622 inhabitants, of whic ...
, on 16 June 1967. She comes from a low-income peasant family and had only completed two years of middle school before joining the
FARC
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army ( es, link=no, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de ColombiaEjército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian confl ...
guerrilla by the late 1980s.
Capture
She was captured by the
Colombian Military on 10 February 2004 in a location called Peñas Coloradas, jurisdiction in the Municipality of
Cartagena de Chairá and was taken to the
Larandia AB to be interrogated mainly about the three Americans the FARC had kidnapped and about FARC's
Secretariat
Secretariat may refer to:
* Secretariat (administrative office)
* Secretariat (horse)
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. She was later transferred to many other locations for security reasons.
Extradition
The
United States
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accused "Sonia" of directly negotiating illegal drugs deliveries to
Peru
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vian and
Brazil
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ian drug traffickers.
Sonia was handed to
U.S. officials on 9 March 2004 at
Barranquilla's Airport in northern Colombia.
U.S. Trial
On 20 February 2007, Sonia was convicted of drug charges in a
Washington D.C.
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court
References
FARC's view of SoniaWikinews - SoniaBBC report
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1967 births
Living people
People from Huila Department
Members of FARC
Women in war in Colombia
Women in warfare post-1945
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