[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5078]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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