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US victims of FARC rebels win claim to Venezuelan's fortune

by Associated Press
| July 2, 2020 9:27 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Three American defense contractors held for five years by leftist rebels in Colombia moved closer to collecting on a $318 million judgment against their former captors after a U.S. Supreme Court justice rebuffed a last-minute appeal by a sanctioned Venezuelan businessman whose assets they seek to claim.

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