Luis Edgar Devia-Silva

Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Narcotics Rewards Program

DECEASED

Also known as "Raul Reyes"
Date of Birth: 09/30/1948
Place of Birth: La Plata, Huila, Colombia
Height: 1.55 meters, Weight: Unknown
Eyes: Brown, Hair: Grey

The FARC is a foreign terrorist organization in Colombia that was established in 1964 with a Marxist philosophy and the declared intent to overthrow the democratic Colombian government. The FARC is Latin America's oldest, largest, most capable and best-equipped insurgency -- with perhaps 12,000 fighters and thousands of supporters, mostly in rural areas. In addition to its attacks on Colombian military, political and economic targets, the FARC's various fronts are deeply involved in narcotics trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, murder and other criminal activities. Today, the FARC controls the majority of cocaine manufacturing and distribution within Colombia, and is responsible for much of the world's cocaine supply and what is trafficked to the United States.

Luis Edgar DEVIA-Silva, also known as "Raul Reyes" was a Secretariat Member and Advisor to the FARC’s Southern Bloc, which is the most prolific cocaine bloc of the FARC. DEVIA-Silva advocated the expansion of FARC’s cocaine trafficking activities and set the FARC’s cocaine policies directing and controlling (i) the production, manufacture, and distribution of hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States and the world; (ii) the "taxation" of the drug trade in Colombia to raise funds for the FARC; and, (iii) the murder of hundreds of people who violated or interfered with the FARC’s cocaine policies. He was killed by Colombian security forces on March 1, 2008.