Caracol Radio spoke exclusively with a Venezuelan intelligence source and told us that Ivan Marquez had arrived in the middle of June Venezuela coming from Cuba and who was coordinating everything to seek refuge in Nicaragua because in Venezuelan territory I no longer had security.
He was in Apure state speaking with members of the Second Marquetalia and giving some instructions, but the attack would not have taken place there, but in El Callao, Bolívar state, by trained men.
“Those are groups like Mamba. They are special units of four or five very well trained men and they are the ones who have done all these tasks”.
Plans of Ivan Marquez
This source also assures that the members of the Second Marquetalia were being handed over by a high-ranking general in Venezuelabecause he knows the location of each of them and knew the plans of Ivan Marquez to go to Nicaragua and that he was planning to leave through clandestine airstrips, since the planes that Marquez used for their transfers with license plates, which would already be known and would be being investigated.
“A Venezuelan general is the one who is handing them over. There is good money. Apart from that there are some people from the THE N who is collaborating, among those is alias ‘El Rolo’”.
Intelligence information would indicate that Ivan Marquez he did die in this attack, since they were certain that the head of the Second Marquetalia was on the spot. However, no official authority confirms the death of Ivan Marquez or if you were seriously injured.