S.Amdt. 5701

1. Adds SEC. 1276. REIMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE FARC at the end of subtitle F of title XII

   Adds a section

   In S.Amdt. 5499 as proposed

   (2) Form of report.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.

   Inserted: SEC. 1276. REIMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE FARC.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall--

   Inserted: (1) designate the FARC as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and

   Inserted: (2) impose, with respect to FARC and any foreign person the President determines is an official, agent, or affiliate of FARC, the sanctions applicable with respect to a foreign person pursuant to Executive Order 13224 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism).

   Inserted: (b) Determination Required.--

   Inserted: (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the President makes the designation required by paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and imposes the sanctions required by paragraph (2) of that subsection, the President shall--

   Inserted: (A) submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives a determination regarding whether the foreign persons specified in paragraph (2) are officials, agents, or affiliates of the FARC; and

   Inserted: (B) impose the sanctions described in subsection (a)(2) with respect to each such person the President determines is an official, agent, or affiliate of the FARC.

   Inserted: (2) Foreign persons specified.--The foreign persons specified in this paragraph are the following:

   Inserted: (A) Jose Benito Cabrera (also known as Jose Benito Cabrera Cuevas, El Mono Fabian, and Fabian Ramirez), born either July 6, 1963, or July 5, 1965, in El Paujil, Caqueta, Colombia.

   Inserted: (B) Erasmo Traslavina Benavides (also known as Ismardo Murcia Lozada, Isnardo Murcia Lozada, and Jimmy Guerrero), born June 19, 1958, in Guacamayo, Santander, Colombia.

   Inserted: (C) Emiro del Carmen Ropero Suarez (also known as Ruben Zamora), born September 2, 1962, in Municipio de Nueva Granada, Norte de Santander, Colombia.

   Show 6 more inserted paragraphsShow less

   Inserted: (D) Guillermo Enrique Torres Cueter (also known as Julian Conrado), born August 17, 1954, in Turbaco, Bolivar, Colombia.

   Inserted: (E) Rodrigo Granda Escobar (also known as Arturo Campos, Gallopinto, and Ricardo Gonzalez), born April 9, 1949, in Frontino, Antioquia, Colombia.

   Inserted: (F) Piedad Esneda Cordoba Ruiz, born January 25, 1955, in Colombia.

   Inserted: (G) Sandra Ramirez Lobo Silva (also known as Sandra Ramirez and Griselda Lobo), born in 1965 in Colombia.

   Inserted: (c) Limitation on Revocation.--The President may not revoke the designation under subsection (a)(1), or sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person under subsection (a)(2) or (b), until the date that is 10 years after the date of the designation or the imposition of such sanctions, as the case may be.

   Inserted: (d) FARC Defined.--In this section, the term "FARC" means the group known as the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or any other alias.

   Original wording

   At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

Read automatically from the Congressional Record. Check the original before relying on it.

As printed