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A Colombian citizen was sentenced for conspiring, in partnership with the violent Marxist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to traffic tons of cocaine to the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York announced on Aug. 19.
Alberto Alonso Jaramillo Ramirez, 56, conspired with others in association with the FARC to obtain and distribute tons of cocaine to be sold in the United States, said authorities. He negotiated with individuals he believed to be traffickers from a Mexican drug trafficking organization called the Mexican DTO, which sought to establish a supply route from Venezuela to the United States.
