Alias ​​Pipe, from the band ‘La Inmaculada’, wants to be part of the peace table and talks about reparations for victims

“For us, thanks to two lieutenants, they opened a window for a dialogue which we have respected until today. All my people know that we are in a dialogue and we all respect the word that was a cessation of activities against them” , the ringleader told the radio station.

“We have assumed our things when we make it public because we are already in these places and it has touched us that way because everyone knows that we have sent them a request so that they listen to us,” he added.

Marín along with his other brothers, among them, alias ‘Nacho’ and ‘Carevieja’, who are also in prison, are responsible for ordering homicides, extortions and disappearances in Tuluá.
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“We are willing to tell everything at a peace table, I believe that the truth is only one and I am willing to tell everything, to ask for forgiveness, to make reparation to the victims and accept my mistakes the day they give me the opportunity to sit down.” on a table,” said the leader.
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In fact, alias Pipe ordered the murder of two councilors: Eliécid Ávila, after the attack on December 31 and Carlos Arturo Londoño, on April 19 with the official Claribet Ocampo, in addition to having declared the other lobbyists, as well as the officials of the mayor of Tuluá, including the president of this town, Gustavo Vélez, a military objective.

It was in February of this year, after the attacks on the 10th of that month that left two dead and four injured, among them, a one-year-old baby, that the band ‘La Inmaculada’ circulated a new pamphlet in which it stated that its members want to be heard to be part of a similar process who appears in Buenaventura with the criminal gangs ‘Shottas’ and ‘Espartanos’.

Alias ​​Pipe said that from the beginning, the gang had shown “willingness to stop weapons and enter into dialogue.”

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In fact, in pamphlets, the members of this criminal structure address the High Commissioner for Peace, José Otty Patiño, and the mayor of Tuluá, Gustavo Vélez.
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“Once again we tell you we only want to be heard and recognized as part of the conflict, because peace will not only be found with the guerrilla groups. We have power in the national territory in urban areas, as we have already been able to demonstrate. No We are asking for money or secretariats or our freedom,” the information reads.

The band ‘La Inmaculada’ or ‘The Tuluá Office’ emerged about 16 years ago. He took the name of La Inmaculada after the neighborhood where he emerged with former members of the criminal and narcoparamilitary group ‘Los Rastrojos’, headed by Luis Enrique Calle Serna, alias Comba.

It was John Estiven Idrobo, its first leader and when he fell he was succeeded by Óscar Darío Restrepo, alias Porrón, who was captured in 2015. He was accused of ordering homicides, as well as extortion and death threats, such as those received at one time by former Colombia National Team player Faustino ‘Tino’ Asprilla.

Given what was said by the leader of ‘La Inmaculada’, the mayor of this municipality in the center of Valle del Cauca has maintained that although the gang has asked him to manage his participation in the dialogues, he does not have the power to do so, but he added that There is no coherence in what is proposed and the bloody acts of violence that have been unleashed in Tuluá. The president has indicated that the gang has been putting pressure on the National Government with murders to accept any type of dialogue.

“They are wrong, because the State is responsible for restoring order in the territory,” said Vélez. “The local government does not have the capacity to determine a dialogue, but the National Government does.”

Vélez recalled that ‘La Inmaculada is responsible for 1,000 murders in the last 10 years.

At the same time, in sectors of Tuluá there is rejection and indignation, because they do not understand “how a gang that carries out homicides, pays for people to be murdered, in addition to extorting merchants, businessmen and citizens, as well as threatening journalists, wants to talk about peace.”

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