AS DEFENCE minister for almost three years under President Alvaro Uribe, Juan Manuel Santos led the crackdown on the guerrillas of the faRC. Their numbers fell from around 18,000 in 2002 to 8,000, and they were driven from areas in central Colombia that they had held for decades. Soon after Mr Santos took over as president last August, the security forces killed the farc's top military commander, Jorge Briceno (nom de guerre,"el Mono Jojoy") in a ground and air operation that destroyed his headquarters.
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机译：胡安·曼努埃尔·桑托斯（Juan Manuel Santos）作为国防部长在阿尔瓦罗·乌里韦（Alvaro Uribe）总统的领导下将近三年，领导了对faRC游击队的镇压。他们的人数从2002年的约18,000人下降到8,000人，并且被驱逐了他们在哥伦比亚中部拥有数十年的地区。去年八月桑托斯先生接任总统后不久，安全部队就在地面和空中行动中杀死了法西尔的最高军事指挥官豪尔赫·布里塞诺（Jorge Briceno）。
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