WOMAN DUBBED THE FEMALE ‘RAMBO’ CAPTURED BY COLOMBIAN FORCES IN WAR ON DRUGS

May 20, 2008

One of Colombia’s most renowned rebel fighters, and the guerrillas’ senior female commander, has surrendered in yet another victory for the US-backed war policy of Oxford-educated President Alvaro Uribe. Half-starved and wounded Nelly Avila Moreno, better known by her guerrilla alias ‘Karina’, surrendered to the secret police, the DAS, ending one of the legends of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). A glance at Karina shows why she was known as a female ‘Rambo’ in the FARC. She has lost the […]