ANNCOL

The Agencia de Noticias Nueva Colombia ( ANNCOL ) is a non-profit news agency, which is run by Latin American and European journalists. ANNCOL does not intend to be neutral and sees his role in the publication of " interviews and press releases of the major sectors of the democratic and progressive movement in Colombia; these include trade unions, human rights organizations and the armed resistance, however. "

ANNCOL was founded in 1996 in Stockholm. In 2002, the Danish, died in 2008, journalist Leif Larsen took over as Honorary President of the five-member editorial board. Larsen was since 1992 Honorary Member of the Danish Association of Journalists and was a member of the resistance movement during the occupation of his country by the Nazis in the years 1940-1945 as well as long-standing member of the Danish Communist Party. The agency is accused by Colombian authorities to be a mouthpiece of the guerrilla organization FARC. After the Colombian authorities Sweden were asking to bring the agency to silence ANNCOL moved its headquarters in 2003 to Denmark.

ANNCOL is an associate member of the Federación Latinoamericana de Periodistas ( FELAP ). ANNCOL does not have its own form of organization and the financing thereof; Colombian sources say, however ANNCOL to have direct contacts with the FARC and are also funded by the FARC.

Joaquín Pérez Becerra In April 2011, a leading employee of ANNCOL was arrested on his arrival in Venezuela and subsequently extradited to Colombia, where he was charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism financing and management of resources in connection with terrorist activities to commit sought; the indictment is based from the e- mail traffic of the seized data from the computer of FARC leader Raul Reyes, who should occupy a finance ANNCOL by the FARC. Then, the internet site of Anncol was suspended.