Informant who helped kill FARC leader says US owes him $5M .
Informant who helped kill FARC leader says US owes him $5M .
Tuesday, 01 January 2013 11:08 Jacob Stringer
A Colombian informant who allegedly played a key role in the assassination of one of the country’s most notorious rebel leaders has claimed the United States is refusing to pay him his reward.
The key to locating and killing "Mono Jojoy", notorious commander of the Eastern Bloc of the FARC, was a tracking device hidden in a pair of orthopedic boots he had delivered to Jojoy, the disgruntled informant told weekly Semana in December.
The Colombian government has paid the informant the promised reward for the “great job he did for his country” in the operation to kill Jojoy, he told the magazine. But the informant, known by the pseudonym of "Juan," says the U.S. has failed to pay a $5 million reward promised on their part.
“Operation Sodom,” a 2010 air strike in central Colombia resulted in the deaths of 20 members of the country’s longest-standing guerrilla group, FARC, including its Eastern Bloc commander, Victor Julio Suarez, alias “Mono Jojoy”. According to organized crime website Insight Crime, Mono Jojoy “was best known for pushing the guerrillas to become more involved in mass civilian kidnappings and aggressive military operations.”
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to the State Dept. press conference on this one. (as if!) 
