Vargas "paid" to help the defendant. (Trial Tr. AM Session 20-21, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas said he stopped working with the defendant around 1992 or early 1993 when John 40 told Vargas that he was needed in another town to "to take charge of some communications with contacts they had in Bogotá...." (Trial Tr. AM Session 29, Mar. 18, 2010.) John 40 told Vargas at that time that the defendant "would stay in charge  he would remain and be in charge of what it was that 1 had been doing, and he would continue on with the radio and the communications via radio, and he would come out on the radio three times a day as had always been done." (Trial Tr. AM Session 30, Mar. 18, 2010.)Vargas clarified that the defendant would "keep purchasing uniforms, bullets, whatever it was that came up, that if there were any kind of problems to make a call regarding those problems, and if anybody needed to communicate with the FARC to call." (Trial Tr. AM Session 30, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas said he and the defendant "spoke on the radio frequently" during the years 1994 and 1995. He also testified that he saw the defendant at a meeting with John 40 during which the defendant and John 40 discussed "a general inventory of how things were going, what he was doing, what they wanted him to do, you know, if they needed anything from him. In general, sort of how his deals were going, and what kinds of problems