Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A CSIS Americas Program event with Jose Miguel Insulza, head of the Organization of American States, was quoted by the Miami Herald, "U.S. 'Concerned' about FARC Uranium."
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A CSIS Americas Program event with Jose Miguel Insulza, head of the Organization of American States, was quoted by the Miami Herald, "U.S. 'Concerned' about FARC Uranium."
The State Department said Thursday it was "deeply concerned" by reports that a Colombian guerrilla group possessed presumed depleted uranium, which experts say poses little threat but could indicate a push to get something more dangerous.
"We are deeply concerned by the reports that FARC members were trafficking in uranium," State Department spokeswoman Heide Bronke said. "This underscores the terrorist threat that FARC poses to the people of Colombia and to the region." [...]
"This is not an imminent problem," Insulza said at an event Thursday organized by two Washington think-tanks, the Inter-American Dialogue and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The FARC doesn't have some kinds of missiles that other [illegal] groups have; I would doubt they have any capacity to enrich uranium. But we will look into the matter, of course." Read the article
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