Antonio Caballero v. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia

O 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ANTONIO CABALLERO, Case No. 2:20-cv-07602-JWH

Plaintiff,

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND

v. ORDER REGARDING PENDING MOTIONS [ECF Nos. 89–94] FUERZAS ARMADAS

REVOLUCIONARIAS DE

COLOMBIA, and

NORTE DEL VALLE CARTEL,

16 Defendants, 17 and

JULIO CESAR ALVAREZ

MONTELONGO,

Intervenor.

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Anthony Caballero’s father—a Colombian politician and diplomat—was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by forces from the Ejercito de Liberacion (the “ELN”) and Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the “FARC”). The FARC and the ELN committed those heinous acts to facilitate their distribution of illicit drugs throughout the United States. FARC forces subsequently threatened Caballero, causing him to abandon his family farm and to flee Colombia. Caballero successfully sued the ELN in a Florida state court for the…