testified that he was known as "Carlos Bolas"[14] and first met the defendant in the 1980s while picking coca leaves. (Trial Tr. AM Session 11, 19, Mar. 18, 2010; Trial Tr. AM Session 12, Mar. 22, 2010.) Vargas said that in the years that he has known the defendant they "did many things along the Colombia/Venezuela border" such as buying "uniforms, weapons, bullets for the 16th front, as well as cars." (Trial Tr. AM Session 11, Mar. 18, 2010.) He also said they were involved in cocaine trafficking. (Trial Tr. AM Session 11, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas testified that he was a member of the FARC for about three years until he was injured and "could no longer really be *17 part of the rank and file...." (Trial Tr.AM Session 19-20, Mar. 18, 2010.) After leaving the FARC, Vargas "became just a run-of-the-mill citizen" and then worked in a billiards hall. (Trial Tr. AM Session 20-21, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas said he saw the defendant again in the early 1990s when Vargas went to visit his father, who lived on a farm near the defendant's farm. (Trial Tr. AM Session 21, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas said he and the defendant talked about problems the defendant was having with the 16th Front "because he was doing some things that the guerillas did not like. They were blaming him for what he was doing, and so he was having problems with the guerillas." (Trial Tr. AM Session 22, Mar. 18, 2010.) After Vargas advised him to do so, the