Operación Fénix
Operación Fénix (English language, English: Operation Phoenix), was an attack by the Military Forces of Colombia, Colombian military against a camp of the guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) over the border in Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador on March 1, 2008. The raid succeeded in killing Raúl Reyes, second-in-command of FARC, as well as some two dozen individuals present in the encampment, including an Ecuadorian citizen and four Mexicans, allegedly research students invited to the camp after attending a Bolivarianism, Bolivarian congress in Quito. In the aftermath of the attack, a 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis, diplomatic crisis emerged between Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. Raid In the week before the incursion, it was revealed that the Colombian government, with assistance from the Government of the United States, United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, had wiretapped several satellite pho ...
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