Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos reported on Wednesday that Venezuelan forces had captured Guillermo Enrique Torres, aka "Julián Conrado," a guerrilla leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who was also known as the FARC's singer.

Santos said that the arrest was made on Monday in a Venezuelan government operation, with the help of Colombian authorities, Efe reported.

Conrado was also known in the ranks of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as "Zambo" and "Guajiro."

The rebel leader, 57, detained in Venezuela, was a member of the "FARC's thematic commission" in the failed peace talks with the government of former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana in 1998 and 2002.