These are excerpts from the video released to the Associated Press by a member of the Colombian police. In the video, el Mono Jojoy, a member of the FARC secretariat and one of its most feared military commanders, is speaking to a group of over 200 FARC guerrillas shortly after the death of Manuel Marulanda, the FARC’s founder, in late March 2008.
The entire video lasts an hour. It was obtained earlier this month when Colombian authorities captured a FARC urban guerrilla in Bogotá. The video was on her computer taken when she was arrested.
The video is certain to complicate Colombian-Ecuadorian and Colombian-Venezuelan relations. El Mono Jojoy admits that the FARC funded Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa’s 2006 Presidential campaign, providing $100,000 USD. Correa has long denied this allegation even as documents on Raul Reyes’ computer captured in the February 2008 raid on his camp just across the border inside Ecuador suggested a close relationship between the FARC and the Ecuadorian government.