Defense Minister announces that he is verifying the death of Jesús Santrich in Venezuela

Colombian media, citing Venezuelan sources, on Tuesday announced the death of one of the country’s most wanted men. As reported by radio W, the intelligence services of the Colombian army confirmed the death of Santrich, as did the magazines Semana, which initially indicated that Seuxis Pausias Hernández Solarte had been killed by the dissidents of Gentil Duarte. in Venezuelan territory.

Similarly, in the last hours, the Minister of Defense Diego Molano, via his Twitter account, would have announced the loss of Santrich.

“Information from the intelligence services indicates that in alleged clashes yesterday in Venezuela, the pseudonym” Santrich “and other criminals are said to have died. Information in verification. If this fact is confirmed, it is verified that the criminals of the drugs take refuge in Venezuela. ”, released the minister.

For its part, the Expediente portal assured that thanks to a source at the scene of the events, it is able to confirm that members of the Venezuelan Guard killed him in a possible counter-espionage operation that had been carried out, thus refusing other means on a possible confrontation between groups.

According to information revealed by Blu Radio, Colombian military intelligence agents told the station that the presumed death of Jesús Satrich had been confirmed by intelligence agents, who revealed that a human source was in the area. inside one of the irregular groups, allegedly gave them information, which was also important for the capture of the alias Matamba.

According to Blu, this Monday afternoon, there were clashes at the border, to which the Colombian authorities had access by intercepting the communications of irregular groups, which “The old man has fallen, the old man has fallen” who, 3 months ago, had met Matamba, according to his informant.

For now, the presumption is that Santrich was in Venezuela in the midst of conflict between dissident groups, apparently due to the domination of drug trafficking routes, in the city of La Victoria, in the state of Apure.

On May 13, the Supreme Court upheld the extradition of Jesús Santrich for drug trafficking, which took this decision unanimously. Since 2018, the United States has asked Colombia for the extradition of the former guerrilla leader who has disappeared. But until just four days ago, the plenary hall gave a favorable opinion on the request.

In 2019, when Santrich appeared with Iván Márquez and they released “ La Segunda Marquetalia ”

In August 2019, Santrich appeared again to announce with his partner Iván Márquez the creation of a new guerrilla. In a 32-minute video posted on YouTube and with a group of more than 10 people, Iván Márquez, who was the head of the FARC negotiations with the government of Juan Manuel Santos, announced the birth of the FARC dissidents, presumed to be that they were based in Venezuela, under the protection of the Nicolás Maduro regime.

Also in this recording were Henry Castellanos, known under the pseudonym of “ Romaña ”, former member of the ranks of the Farc, and José Manuel Sierra Sabogal, alias “ Zarco Aldinever ”, former guerrilla leader and henchman of the alias “ El Paisa ”.

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