Venezuelan authorities. (Trial Tr. AM Session 52, Mar. 8, 2010.) Part of the interview was videotaped but the rest was not. (Trial Tr. AM Session 56, 57, Mar. 8, 2010.) The videotape and a translation were admitted into evidence as Government's Exhibits 3 and 3T, respectively. (Trial Tr. AM Session 58, Mar. 8, 2010.)
During the interview the defendant told Colonel Gonzales that he was connected to the FARC and "he belonged to the logistics area, and that he also had dealings with the drug trade, and that he was also in charge of selling the FARC's drugs, and fulfilled leadership roles as a FARC leader as in committing crimes in the eastern border of Colombia with Venezuela." (Trial Tr. AM Session 54, Mar. 8, 2010; Trial Tr. PMinterviewed by Major Guillermo Rios, who was the chief of analysis to the 16th Front for the Intelligence Directorate of the Military. (Trial Tr. AM Session 18, 20-21, Mar. 9, 2010.) Major Rios said the defendant initially was nervous about the interview but, after being confronted with photographs and other information, "he started volunteering information and telling us a more complete account of his activity with the FARC." (Trial Tr. AM Session 22, 60-61, Mar. 9, 2010.) Major Rios stated:
He recounted everything. The first contacts he had with FARC, what his role, his job had been, and that with time he had gone up in the ranks in his work, and that he ended up being in charge of the weapons, the ammunitions, the explosives of the trafficking