In the midst of the installation of the negotiation table between the government of Gustavo Petro and the dissidents of ‘Iván Márquez’, it emerged that the Military Forces killed a leader of this residual organized armed groupwhich generated the annoyance of the High Commissioner for Peace, Otty Patiño.
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The official described the death of the dissident as “a fateful event,” and assured that ““We have mistreated the trust that we have been creating since February here with the ‘Second Marquetalia’.”
And he added, it is “a fateful event and that is how the President understands it, the Minister of Defense also understands it,” Patiño pointed out.
EL TIEMPO investigated the events surrounding the death of alias Hermes, whose death the High Commissioner for Peace mourned.
Signing of the beginning of peace talks with Iván Márquez
Photo:Peace Commissioner Office
Head of the ‘Alfonso Cano’ block
According to sources from the Military Forces consulted by this newspaper, alias Hermes died in combat on Sunday, June 23, in the rural area of Roberto Payán, Nariño.
‘Hermes’ He was considered the fourth head of the ‘Alfonso Cano’ bloc of dissidents who call themselves ‘Segunda Marquetalia’, whose head is alias Iván Márquez.
During the military action, sources highlighted that “A minor was recovered, who was carrying and had fired a rifle. The weapon was seized“.
Likewise, three “guerrillas were reported injured but managed to flee.”
Cocaine laboratory of the dissidents in Nariño.
Photo:Ministry of Defense
‘Hermes’, 50 years old, is accused – according to the dossier against him, to which EL TIEMPO had access – of selective homicides, drug trafficking, illegal mining and recruitment of minors.
In fact, the head of the dissidents had a current arrest warrant from the First Municipal Itinerant Court for Control of Guarantees of Pasto.
In addition, he was involved in a judicial process with Prosecutor’s Office 104 of the department of Nariño for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, manufacturing, carrying and trafficking weapons, ammunition and explosives.
Policarpa area, in Nariño.
Photo:Archive. TIME
Within the dossier against him, it is indicated that he was part of the 29th Front of the extinct FARC for more than eight years. There he would have acquired experience in the planning and execution of terrorist actions. In 2016, he joined the peace process and was part of the signatories of the Agreement.
Later he entered the Betania Transitory Local Normalization Zone, located in a rural area of the municipality of Policarpa, Nariño; apparently this man, according to sources, “Even though he was in the process, he would never have stopped carrying out his criminal activities against the civilian population and the Public Force.”
Due to these facts, alias Hermes was considered a high-value and priority objective of the Public Force.
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