Aka ‘Iván bite’ is not dead, we will capture it": Mindefense

In dialogue with RCN Radio, the Minister of National Defense, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez, He talked about the offensive operations advanced by the public force against FARC dissident groups, especially those commanded by Néstor Gregorio Vera Fernández, better known for his alias ‘Iván Bite’.

The head of the Defense portfolio assured that there are no indications of the abatement of aka ‘Iván bite’, during fighting registered during the night and early Friday 18 and Saturday, April 19, 2025, between the departments of Putumayo and Caquetá to the south of the country.

This statement was given after a publication that made the media RTVC News,In your X account, where he claimed that aka “Iván Bite” would have been discharged between these departments.

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“Iván bite is not dead, operations persist to capture it. Ideally, it is demobilized. The mission continues and persists. And therefore we offer a reward even 4. 450 million pesos, “said Minister Pedro Sánchez in dialogue with RCN Radio.

On the other hand, the head of the Defense portfolio clarified the interpretation that has been given to Decree 0448 of April 17, 2025, which establishes the cessation of offensive operations of the Military Forces and Special Operations of the National Police. Pedro Sánchez He said that the cessation to the fire applies only against the dissidents of the FARC of alias ‘Calarcá’ for a month, between April 18 and May 18, 2025. “It does not mean that we cannot attack them, if we see that they are committing crimes or we know that they will commit crimes,” said the minister, Pedro Sánchez.

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Why does this decree only favor Disides of Alias ​​Calarcá?

According to Mindefense, “What has advanced with the criminal group, from Alias ​​’Calarcá’ has opted for the dialogue, and those dialogues are maintained, there is a high probability that they will demobilize and that is why it is sought that in a month so that they transit to the location areas, especially in the Catatumbo region and other areas that allow their location and concentration for a peace process. ”

On the other hand, in the decree it is also indicated that the replacement of illicit crops in these areas will be faster.

Faced with the operations against FARC dissidents, indicated responsible for the last attacks, including those of La Plata Huila, which left more than 20 injured and 2 dead and the attack against Mondomo, Cauca, The minister said that to counteract the strength of these groups against the civilian population, offensive operations will increase their force. Figures such as the captures of 29 members of the structures of alias ‘Iván Bite’ from March 27 to April 9 of this year.

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On the other hand, confirmed that these operations were the strongest. As well as the one deployed against the main leader of the structure ‘Armando Ríos’right -handed bite, and responsible for deploying all military actions in Vichada and Guaviare.

Attack at Corinth Cauca by alias ‘Iván Bite’

It should be noted that this Saturday, April 19, there was also a harassment against the police station in the population of Corinth, in the north of the department of Cauca. The inhabitants of the town reported that there were shots against the police barracks. Attributed attack, apparently, to the ORGANIZED RESIDUAL ARMED GROUP ‘Dagoberto Ramos’.

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However, the minister said that these dissidents only seek to show power as a Retaliation Faced with the offensive operations that the public force carries against it. Similar case, in Toribio, Cauca, where they were also attributed to the murder of the indigenous leader, Alfonso Yule in August 2024.

Finally, Pedro Sánchez, confirmed that in the last year They neutralized 49 intentions of terrorist attack in that area of ​​the Corinth, Cauca and the offensive operations against all FARC dissident groups continue.