The governments of Colombia and Venezuela agreed to establish “prompt and effective institutional mechanisms” to locate the mortal remains of victims of the Colombian armed conflict in the border area.
This was reported this Sunday by the Colombian Foreign Ministry, through a statement published on its twitter account @CancilleriaCol.
The text of the statement is as follows: “in recent communication with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Yván Gil Pinto, we agreed to provide prompt and effective institutional mechanisms to locate the mortal remains of Colombian nationals reported missing in border area, buried in Venezuelan territory according to statements by Mr. Salvatore Mancuso, former commander of the self-styled United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC. Said demonstrations were carried out virtually during an act that took place on May 9, in the border town of Juan Frío, a corregimiento of the municipality of Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander, and during an appearance that took place a few days ago before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace , JEP”.
It is endorsed by the New Granada Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva, who will immediately carry out all the actions to achieve this end.
For his part, paramilitary chief Mancuso, imprisoned in the United States for drug trafficking, made the revelation during his virtual speech at a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, in which the former AUC commander recounted that they decided to “destroy the oven ” in which the Fronteras Front, a unit of the Catatumbo Bloc of the AUC, incinerated its victims to make them disappear and erase all evidence.
