United States v. Juan Vega

Juan Jose Martinez Vega and Erminso Cuevas Cabrera were indicted with more than 50 other individuals for conspiring to commit crimes associated with the importation, manufacture, and distribution of cocaine into the United States. To date, only Martinez Vega, Cuevas, and one other have stood trial. See United States v. Garcia, 757 F.3d 315 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

The indicted individuals were allegedly affiliated with the Fuerzas Armadas Revo-lucionarias de Colombia (“FARC”), a “left-wing guerilla group that has waged a violent insurgency against Colombia’s government for much of the last fifty…