[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5078]
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SA 5701. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1276. REIMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE
FARC.
(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President shall--
(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
(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).
(b) Determination Required.--
(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--
(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
(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.
(2) Foreign persons specified.--The foreign persons
specified in this paragraph are the following:
(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.
(B) Erasmo Traslavina Benavides (also known as Ismardo
Murcia Lozada, Isnardo Murcia Lozada, and Jimmy Guerrero),
born June 19, 1958, in Guacamayo, Santander, Colombia.
(C) Emiro del Carmen Ropero Suarez (also known as Ruben
Zamora), born September 2, 1962, in Municipio de Nueva
Granada, Norte de Santander, Colombia.
(D) Guillermo Enrique Torres Cueter (also known as Julian
Conrado), born August 17, 1954, in Turbaco, Bolivar,
Colombia.
(E) Rodrigo Granda Escobar (also known as Arturo Campos,
Gallopinto, and Ricardo Gonzalez), born April 9, 1949, in
Frontino, Antioquia, Colombia.
(F) Piedad Esneda Cordoba Ruiz, born January 25, 1955, in
Colombia.
(G) Sandra Ramirez Lobo Silva (also known as Sandra Ramirez
and Griselda Lobo), born in 1965 in Colombia.
(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.
(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.
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