The colombian presidentIván Duque, said this Saturday that the authorities were verifying the alleged death in Venezuela of the top leader of the FARC dissidents, Luciano Marín Arango, alias “Iván Márquez.”
“At this time, information is being verified. We are working with our intelligence to verify this information and obviously, as soon as we have any corroboration, we will inform it in a timely manner,” Duque said, quoted by the Spanish agency. Eph.
? “Intelligence is trying to verify”: President Duque on the alleged death of Iván Márquez.
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Although the news was not confirmed, according to local media Márquez would have died in an attack in the midst of the confrontation that the group of dissidents called “Second Marquetalia” had with criminal gangs for the control of drug trafficking on the border between Colombia and Venezuela.
Duke, quoted by Eph, insisted that the head of the FARC dissidents was in Venezuela protected by Nicolás Maduro. “That the world knows,” he said.
CONFLICT AT THE BORDER
The Colombian government has reiterated that Maduro protects in his country, not only the FARC dissidents, but also the guerrilla commanders of the National Liberation Army (ELN). For his part, Defense Minister Diego Molano assured that recent information indicated that alias “Iván Márquez” was “looking to leave Venezuela.”
Márquez was the head of the FARC negotiating team in the Havana talks, which led to the signing of the peace agreement with that guerrilla, on November 24, 2016. However, in August 2019 he abandoned the peace agreement and Along with other commanders of the former guerrilla, he took up arms again, alleging that the Colombian government was not fulfilling the agreement.
The guerrilla was part of the FARC commanders and even became one of the successors of the then head of that guerrilla, alias “Alfonso Cano”, who died in a military operation in 2011.
The Spanish agency indicates that Luciano Marín Arango, 67 years old, has been in the guerrilla for more than 40 years. He was born on June 16, 1955 in Florencia, capital of the southern department of Caquetá, and his record indicates that in the early 1980s he joined the FARC’s 14th Front, shortly before the peace process with the government of the then president Belisario Betancur that led to the birth of the left-wing Patriotic Union (UP) party.
DISSIDENTS KILLED IN VENEZUELA
In the midst of the disputes in Venezuela, other FARC dissidents have been assassinated, such as Miguel Botache Santanilla, known as “Gentil Duarte”, whose death was confirmed by the dissidents last May, in a confrontation with another group of former guerrillas in the state. of Zulia, bordering with Colombia.
Also assassinated in Venezuela were Henry Castellanos, alias “Romaña”, and Hernán Darío Velásquez, alias “El Paisa”, considered the two most bloodthirsty chiefs of the former FARC guerrilla and who were part of the “Second Marquetalia”.
In mid-May of last year, in a confrontation between dissidences, the death of Seuxis Paucias Hernández Solarte, alias “Jesús Santrich”, another of his bosses, was also learned.
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