APRIL 7, 2015 Simon Trinidad, Imprisoned, Connects with Colombian Peace Process by W. T. WHITNEY Ricardo Palmera, alias “Simon Trinidad,” is a political prisoner and more. Even as such, his sixty-year sentence and constant solitary confinement are extraordinary. Post- sentencing legal services are not always available. His mail is blocked, visitors ...

An Interview with FARC Commander Simón Trinidad Garry M. Leech September 25, 2007 In January 1999, newly elected Colombian president Andrés Pastrana ceded an area of southern Colombia the size of Switzerland to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas as part of an agreement to begin peace talks. ...