Biography
Simon Trinidad was a long-time leader in mass movements for social change in Colombia, and is a top negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In 2003, he was sent to Ecuador to make contact with UN official James Lemoyne, as part of efforts to revive peace talks with the Colombian gor.He was captured in Ecuador in 2004 and then extradited to the US on charges of narco-trafficking and kidnapping, and subjected to four separate trials, due to repeated mistrials. Ultimately, he was sentenced to 60 years at the Florence “Supermax” prison in Colorado.
From a second record of the same person, merged here so nothing is lost:
Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda (Simon Trinidad) was a high-ranking FARC member extradited to the U.S. for the kidnapping of three Americans in Colombia. Convicted at trial of hostage-taking and providing material support to terrorists; sentenced to 720 months federal prison.
