Biography
Anderson Chamapuro Dogirama, known as El Tigre or Dairon, was forcibly recruited into the FARC as a child and later served in its 57th Front. He was among the armed guards who held U.S. citizen Cecilio Juan Padrón in a jungle camp after Padrón was kidnapped in Panama City on April 4, 2008. Colombian authorities arrested Dogirama in Medellín on December 3, 2009. He was extradited to the United States, convicted of hostage taking and hostage-taking conspiracy on June 20, 2011 after a bench trial on stipulated facts, and sentenced on October 24, 2011 to ten years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and $3 million restitution.
