The authorities in Colombia have made the necessary intelligence analysis on the video that would come from the so-called Second Marquetalia, in which it is ensured that the dissident of the FARC Ivan Marquez survived an attack on June 30is with minor injuries, is in good health and remains in a combat zone.
These studies allow us to affirm that the one in charge of reading the communiqué is Alberto Cruz Lobo, alias ‘Enrique Marulanda’, son of the founder of the FARC, Manuel Marulanda Vélez. Next to him, also showing his face, is Jerson González, a member of the third line of the dissidents of the Second Marquetalia. In total, 23 dissidents appear in the images; the remaining 21 wear balaclavas.
As confirmed to Caracol Radio, high-ranking Colombian military sources appreciate why it was not the Ivan Marquezas head of the Second Marquetalia, who read that statement, or his closest man, ‘El Zarco Aldinever’.
The same sources explain that Iván Márquez is not in any camp, nor in his combat zone, as alias ‘Enrique Marulanda’ says in the video released this weekend, but remains in a serious state of health, in a hospital in Caracas , Venezuela, protected by agents of the Venezuelan government. Also, that ‘El Zarco Aldinever’ remains by his side giving him security, because he is the only person that Márquez trusts at this time.
