QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa never received funds from Colombian rebel group FARC, his government said yesterday as he sought to refute the content of a video aired on Colombian television.
A top FARC leader said in the video that the guerrillas donated cash to Correa’s presidential campaign.
Ecuador denied that leftist Correa’s campaign got any money from the FARC, which is branded a terrorist group by Washington, and accused Colombia of launching a “media offensive” against Correa.
The Colombian attorney general’s office said police were investigating the statements in the video by Jorge Briceno Suarez, known as “Mono Jojoy,” chief military commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish initials FARC.
