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S E C R E T BOGOTA 001903 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NOFORN 
SIPDIS 
VISAS VIPER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/23/2016 
TAGS: ASEC CMGT CVIS KVPR PINR PTER CO
SUBJECT: VISAS VIPER MONTHLY REPORT: FEBRUARY 2007 
 
REF: BOGOTA 01390 AND PREVIOUS 
 
Classified By: CDA Milton Drucker, reason 1.5(d). 
 
¶1. (U) Post's Visa Viper Committee met on March 7, 2007, and 
the meeting was chaired by the CDA, Milton Drucker.  Post's 
Viper Coordinator is Fraud Prevention Unit officer Jenny 
Cordell. 
 
¶2. (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Horacio Duque 
Giraldo, former advisor to then-Minister of Interior Horacio 
Serpa during the presidential administration of Ernesto 
Samper.  Duque was arrested on February 28, 2007 for his 
alleged ties to a drug trafficking organization that conducts 
business with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia 
(FARC), a Named Foreign Terrorist Organization.  Reports 
characterize Duque as the right-hand man of FARC spokesperson 
"Raul Reyes," and Post's Drug Enforcement Administration 
(DEA) office confirms that, according to 2005 reporting, 
Duque is a finance man for the FARC. 
 
¶3. (SBU) Name: Duque Girlado, Horacio 
DOB: 18-MAY-1954 
Colombian Cedula Number: 4406725 
Colombian Passport: PO47719 
Gender: Male 
CLASS Hits: None 
Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on March 7, 2007 under INA 
Section 212(a)(2)(C)(i). 
 
¶4. (C) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Denys (aka Denis) 
Silva Ruiz, who was arrested on February 18, 2007 for 
membership in and activities on behalf of the FARC.  Silva 
played a key role in a 1998 operation, negotiated by former 
Peruvian security chief Vladimiro Montesinos, wherein 10,000 
AK-47 rifles from Jordan were bought and transferred to the 
FARC.  Silva faces international drug and arms trafficking 
charges.  DEA confirms that Silva is a member of the FARC's 
16th Front.  Although there are CLASS hits which appear to 
correspond to Silva, Colombian security officials confirm 
that Silva's nationality and date of birth are different from 
those shown in CLASS. 
 
¶5. (SBU) Name: Silva Ruiz, Denys (or Denis) 
DOB: 31-MAY-1969 
Peruvian Passport Number: 0679757 
Country of Birth: Peru 
Gender: Male 
 
¶6. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Rosa Stella 
Ibanez Alonso, who was arrested on February 12, 2007, for her 
alleged involvement in diverting the equivalent of USD 2.7 
million in municipal funds to the United Self-Defense Forces 
of Colombia (AUC, a Named Foreign Terrorist Organization). 
Ibanez, the former Mayor of Soledad in Colombia's Casanare 
Department, remains in custody. 
 
¶7. (SBU) Name: Ibanez Alonso, Rosa Stella (or Estella) 
DOB: 29-AUG-1969 
Colombian Cedula Number: 32828433 
Colombian Passport: AJ140391 
Gender: Female 
CLASS Hits: None 
 
¶8. (S/NF) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Bertulfo 
Trujillo Fuentes.  Post's Office of Regional Affairs (ORA) 
reports that according to Colombian Army Intelligence, 
noncommissioned officer Trujillo is actively involved with 
the FARC and has attempted to facilitate the kidnapping of 
several unit mates.  Until he was recently terminated from 
his post, Trujillo was a part of the Intelligence Unit, as 
well. 
 
¶9. (SBU) Name: Trujillo Fuentes, Bertulfo 
DOB: 05-OCT-1969 
Colombian Cedula Number: 75001768 
CLASS hits: None 
 
¶10. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Alvaro Araujo 
Castro, Colombian Senator from Cesar Department who, on 
February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's Supreme Court 
of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties to the AUC. 
Araujo has been charged with conspiracy and aggravated 
kidnapping.  Araujo remains in custody. 
¶11. (SBU) Name: Araujo Castro, Alvaro 
DOB: 07-NOV-1966 
Colombian Cedula Number: 80411143 
Colombian Passport: PO038731 
Gender: Male 
CLASS Hits: None 
Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under 
INA Section 221(i). 
 
¶12. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Dieb Nicolas 
Maloof Cuse, Colombian Senator from Atlantico Department who, 
on February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's Supreme 
Court of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties to the 
AUC.  Maloof has been charged with conspiracy, and remains in 
custody. 
 
¶13. (SBU) Name: Maloof Cuse, Dieb Nicolas 
DOB: 19-APR-1964 
Colombian Cedula Number: 8736863 
Colombian Passport: PO031658 
Gender: Male 
CLASS Hits: None 
Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under 
INA Section 221(i). 
 
¶14. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Mauricio 
Pimiento Barrera, Colombian Senator from Cesar Department 
who, on February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's 
Supreme Court of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties 
to the AUC.  Pimiento has been charged with conspiracy, and 
remains in custody. 
 
¶15. (SBU) Name: Pimiento Barrera, Mauricio 
DOB: 17-MAR-1961 
Colombian Cedula Number: 19434067 
Colombian Passport: D031184 
Gender: Male 
CLASS Hits: None 
Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under 
INA Section 221(i). 
 
¶16. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Luis Eduardo 
Vives Lacouture, Colombian Senator from Magdalena Department 
who, on February 15, 2007, upon the order of Colombia's 
Supreme Court of Justice, was arrested for his alleged ties 
to the AUC.  Vives has been charged with conspiracy, and 
remains in custody. 
 
¶17. (SBU) Name: Vives Lacouture, Luis Eduardo 
DOB: 10-DEC-1957 
Colombian Cedula Number: 12544261 
Colombian Passport: PO029013 
Gender: Male 
CLASS Hits: None 
Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under 
INA Section 221(i). 
 
¶18. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Alfonso 
Antonio Francisco Campo Escobar, Colombian Representative 
from Magdalena Department who, on February 15, 2007, upon the 
order of Colombia's Supreme Court of Justice, was arrested 
for his alleged ties to the AUC.  Campo has been charged with 
conspiracy, and remains in custody. 
 
¶19. (SBU) Name: Campo Escobar, Alfonso Antonio Francisco 
DOB: 05-DEC-1966 
Colombian Cedula Number: 85449946 
Colombian Passport: PO038616 
Gender: Male 
CLASS Hits: None 
Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under 
INA Section 221(i). 
 
¶20. (SBU) Post's Visas Viper Committee submits Jorge Luis 
Caballero Caballero, Colombian Representative from Magdalena 
Department, whose arrest has been ordered by the Colombian 
Supreme Court of Justice due to his alleged ties to the AUC. 
Caballero has been charged with conspiracy, but has fled 
Colombia and is reportedly seeking asylum in Europe. 
 
¶21. (SBU) Name: Caballero Caballero, Jorge Luis 
DOB: 21-APR-1967 
Colombian Cedula Number: 5056056 
Colombian Passport: PO034270 
Gender: Male 
CLASS Hits: None 
Subject's B-1/B-2 visa was revoked on December 22, 2006 under 
INA Section 221(i). 
 
¶22. (SBU) The Visas Viper Committee also discussed the status 
of the Colombian Supreme Court investigation into  Colombian 
Senators' and Representatives' alleged ties to AUC 
paramilitaries and others involved in the "parapolitics" 
scandal (reftel).  Specifically, the Committee reviewed the 
cases of Alvaro Araujo Noguera, Jorge de Jesus Castro 
Pacheco, Miguel Angel Duran Gelvis, Hernando Cesar de Jesus 
Molina Araujo, Ciro Ramirez Pinzon, and Oscar Leonidas 
Wilches Carreno.  The Committee determined that additional 
information is needed before submission to Visas Viper. 
Given that these individuals are currently under criminal 
investigation, however, the Consular Section, in concurrence 
with the Visas Viper Committee, is taking action to revoke 
the visas of those who hold them, as these individuals 
currently pose a flight risk. 
 
¶23. (SBU) The Committee discussed the cases of six sitting 
mayors who have been called for questioning by a prosecutor 
with the National Anticorruption Unit.  The mayors are under 
investigation for alleged ties to the ACC (Casanare Peasant 
Self-Defense Group), having signed a document in which they 
agreed to channel part of their towns' budgets to 
paramilitary coffers.  Those implicated include: Raul Cabrera 
Barreto, Mayor of Villanueva; Aleyder Castaneda Avila, Mayor 
of Monterey; Mauricio Esteban Chaparro, Mayor of Sabanalarga; 
Jorge Eliecer Lopez Barreto, Mayor of Tauramena; Henry Montes 
Montes, Mayor of Mani; and Leonel Roberto Torres Arias, Mayor 
of Aguazul.  The subjects' ties to the AUC and the 
circumstances under which they signed the document remain 
unclear.  As such,the Committee determined that additional 
information is needed before submission to Visas Viper.  None 
of the mayors currently hold visas, and CLASS Lookouts have 
been added for each of them. 
Drucker 

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