EL TIEMPO learned for the first time a report prepared by intelligence agencies that analyzes the possible factors that led to the internal division of the ELN and its front.Communeros of the South’.
This after the announcement by the ‘Comuneros del Sur’ front, yesterday (Tuesday, May 7), of its separation from the Central Command and the National Directorate of that guerrilla; reiterating his intention to participate in regional peace spaces in the department of Nariño, an area where he is present.
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Alias HH, head of the Comuneros del Sur front
Photo:Intelligence sources
Three companies make up the ‘Comuneros del Sur’ front
According to a report from intelligence agencies to which EL TIEMPO had access, this front is made up of three companies: ‘Jaime Toño Obando’, commanded by Jorge Wilfredo Rosero Marín alias Fercho; the company ‘José Luis Cabrera Rúales’, commanded by Oliverio Orfilio Pai Rodríguez alias Rubén and the company Elder Santos’, whose visible head is Segundo Andrés Obregón Obando alias Camilo Pantaloneta.
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The management of silver generated the crisis
The document, to which this newspaper had access, indicates that Coce “would intend to retain absolute control of the money and resources that the ‘Comuneros del Sur’ are generating, to which they would not be willing.”
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Intelligence analysts also warn that, “with what they have called regional dialogues, They have seen that they can obtain better advantages and benefits in negotiations, such as extensions of land, livestock, properties and to be able to keep a good part of the assets acquired illicitly. In a national negotiation, they would have to contribute many resources and the benefits would be few”
The agencies have information that Coce would have sent some delegates to talk with ‘HH’ and his people to close gaps and be able to demonstrate unity in command, which gives Coce greater robustness and power to demand.
In conclusion, the document states, “the guerrilla bases, such as the ‘Comuneros del Sur’, interpret that Coce only thinks about asking for benefits for themselves and few for the majority of the structures, which would generate concern in many of them, who see these dialogues as the opportunity to lay down their weapons. and dedicate themselves to legal work, but with a certain level of financial solvency.
The weapons were intended to be used to reactivate a guerrilla front.
Photo:Colombian Military Forces
The finances of the ‘Comuneros’
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Along these lines, the agencies conclude that these actions “have allowed it to strengthen its logistical networks and its illegal finances, which has translated into “improving equipment for their armed structures, through the acquisition of war material and also strengthening their support networks in the territory.”
Which translates into having illegal control of the area, thus maintaining dominance of the illicit economies that develop in the region.
Three laboratories were dismantled by the Army in Nariño.
Photo:Supplied
Territorial war
They thus seek to stop the activities against dissidents of both the ‘Central General Staff’ and the ‘Second Marquetalia’, especially the latter, which in Nariño, has increased its intention to seek illegal control of territory.
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But, according to the document, “the authorities in Nariño have shown that there is a certain level of coordination and cooperation between structures of the ‘Second Marquetalia’ and the ‘Comuneros del Sur’.
This, intelligence agencies claim, “because information of interest has been obtained that allows us to identify that these two criminal organizations developed coordinated criminal activities. to confront the structures that are part of the ‘Central General Staff'”.
These clashes occurred at the beginning of 2024, with the conflict worsening in the month of March, where these two structures managed to displace some commissions of the organized armed group ‘Franco Benavides’ of the ‘Estado Mayor Central’ from the areas of criminal influence.
Alicia Liliana Méndez
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