At the installation table of the peace talks with the Petro Government, the image of Ivan Marquez generated an impact among those present.
The leader of the Farc dissidents of the Second Marquetalia showed the consequences after the attack of which he was the target in 2022: his right arm was equipped with a prosthesiswhile his vision, due to the damage to his right eye, also shows signs of having been reduced.
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These physical limitations date back to the incident in July 2022, when multiple media outlets reported his alleged death in the middle of an armed confrontation. The attack with explosives occurred in the neighboring country, specifically, in a camp located in Caicara del Orinoco, Bolívar state, 198 kilometers from the border with Colombia, in the department of Vichada.
Initial reports suggested he had been murdered, while others claimed he had survived with serious injuries, including the loss of an eye due to shrapnel. At the time, there was speculation that he had received assistance from the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela.
With this, the hypothesis that “Luciano Marín Arango had lost an arm and had a serious injury,” as he indicated at the time CM&is the one that coincides with what happened in mid-2022.
“Some sources claim that he died in a confusing act in Venezuela. Others say that he is in a hospital in a very serious state of health, practically in a vegetative state. Regarding that, I have always believed that you have to be patient, look at what the intelligence sources reveal, but the truth is that Narcotalia no longer has Santrichto The Countryto Romagnato Gentile already Ivan Mordisco. “Narcotalia has ceased to exist,” said then-president Iván Duque, in dialogue with Vicky Dávila.
Marquez made a surprise appearance in August 2023, when Snail Radio released an audio attributed to him, reinforcing the idea that he was still alive. However, the veracity of the audio was not known, nor when the date of its creation would have been, so uncertainty in this regard continued.
In the voice note the following was heard: “August 2023; comrades in arms and ideas, receive the hug of my heart as a greeting. I begin this speech taking from the golden pages of our universal Caribbean vallenato, the certainty of the Magdalenian minstrel that: “Abel Antonio does not die yet, Abel Antonio dies when God needs him”, I hope with those words to clear up some doubts.”
Denying the rumors that he was considered dead, Danilo Rueda, former Peace Commissioner of the Petro Government, said in an interview with the newspaper Time in October 2023 who had had three meetings with Ivan Marquezin which several witnesses had participated, with the purpose of discussing the proposal for total peace and exploring a possible dialogue with this ex-FARC faction that took up arms.
In these meetings, according to Rueda, Márquez “has reiterated his commitment to peace,” ensuring that his group is not a drug trafficker, but a political insurgency. Furthermore, Rueda said that Márquez was living in Colombia and in good health.
Seven months later, during the Binational Peace Forum held at the Puerto Carreño Coliseum (Vichada) on Saturday, May 11, a video was shown in which Luciano Marín, alias Iván Márquez, appeared. However, on the social network
Salvatore Laudicina (@slaudicina) commented: “You have to be blind or very naive not to realize that this Iván Márquez video was created with AI.”
AI experts recommend paying attention to the movement of the hands, eyes and voice, as some of the elements to take into account to identify the veracity of a video. By then, users commented that, following these markers, the movement of Márquez’s hands, as well as that of his eyes, were indicative of possible manipulation.
However, his injuries would be the reason why suspicions were raised in the videos; His appearance in the installation of the dialogue table reveals his current state: with problems in one eye and a prosthesis in one hand.
