Take up arms, a Farc faction | Shocked …

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Dawn brought the winds of war. The drums resonated, first, in social networks. The video of "Ivan Márquez", the former Farc chief negotiator in the Havana Dialogues, announcing that he was taking up arms, caused a national upheaval, the men's demand for war. business and city-dwellers, a plea for respect for their lives in the most remote and humble regions, and the mobilization of a generation of Colombians and Colombians who disagree with the armed struggle, while recognizing that it is difficult to implement the Peace Agreement. "We do not know peace at all, here the coca and the gold surrounded us with armed groups, they kill leaders, you can not leave quietly, but knowing that these gentlemen who were commanders and who are Organize again guerrillas, it would be worse.We have a very great fear, "he says Page / 12 a peasant from a remote path of Antioquia.

Those defending the peace agreement, the government and the victims, insisted that the majority of veterans were complying with the agreement. According to data released by the government and the president of the party Farc, Rodrigo Londoño "Tymoshenko", 90% of former rebels are still in the law. According to information from the Ideas for Peace Foundation, more than 300 men and women have returned to arms. However, the data is not clear because most have left the old villages where they have gathered for disarmament and reintegration. And on more than a thousand of them, there is no information on where they are located. Several began to "disappear" territorial spaces of reincorporation after the capture of Seusis Hernández "Santrich" on April 9 of last year.

Mistrust was among many controls that thought something similar could happen to them. Walter Mendoza, for example, who appears next to "Romagna" in the video, there was no news after the release of Santrich. Others like Ivan Marquez, Henry Castellaños and "El Paisa" had lost sight of them since last year. Page / 12 He was able to know the identity of several of the men who participated in the new announcement of the FARC guerrillas. Known as "Villa", the man next to "Romagna" is one of the best known of the Catatumbo area, where criminal gangs operate today and where the guerrillas of the ELN with whom, says Marquez, will seek an alliance. The commanders Henry Castallenos "Romagna", "El Paisa" and "Aldinever", whose fate was not known a few months after the capture, are in the border area of ​​Venezuela and where the Farc would have. a good part of their wealth. of Jesus Santrich. The oldest men of this war are present, a rifle on the shoulders. Besides those already mentioned, there is "Nelson Robles", Walter Mendoza, located next to one of the few women visible in the video. He also leads this area of ​​dissent, according to the video, known as "The Crazy Ivan," which has dealt serious blows to the police. But "Gentil Duarte" does not appear, the first commander to defect and with whom, according to sources cited by this newspaper, Iván Marquez would try to reorganize "the People's Army":

A total of 19 armed individuals can be seen in a two-hour audio-visual document including the use of a drone. The most ancient military intelligence of the rebels would be gathered there, so many people fear that the blows they inflict have serious consequences. "A new operational modality will make it possible to know the state. We will only react to the offensive. We will not continue to kill each other between clbad brothers, "says Luciano Marín, leader of the new guerrillas. He also points out that kidnappings will not continue but will be funded with money from illegal businesses and savings. According to information from Semana and Caracol Radio, Enrique Marulanda, son of Farc founder Manuel Marulanda Vélez, "Ariel", "Gonzalo" and "Jhon 40" are also present in the video.

President Iván Duque, for his part, said that "this group of criminals intends to make fun of the country and we will not allow it" and urged citizens to "deliver these terrorists" by offering about 100 $ 000 for information that leads to location. of these. But they are in the jungle, in the south, in the jungle and, according to Marquez himself, besieged by the perfumes Vaupés. Although proposing the location of their camps does not seem credible, but constitutes a provocation to the armed attack, a former FARC commander said that they would probably be in this area or in the province of Vaupés. "There, no one defeated him," he told the newspaper of a capital of the country where he is advancing his reintegration by avoiding the current leaders of the FAR party from which he has withdrawn. a few weeks ago.

For this man, who has accumulated four decades in guerrilla warfare in the Colombian mountains and with more than 10,000 men, he gave his rifle, which appears in the video next to Marquez and "Jesús Santrich" "are the people who went to war; there are the real commanders, those who are now in Bogotá in Congress and under the leadership of the party have always been politicians, never waged war, and it is they who led the ranks to this betrayal that was the only one. peace agreement and that has consequences like the news of today. "The well-known internal division started for Marquez himself, Santrich (detained for more than a year for alleged drug trafficking offense, recently released and escaped) and" El Paisa "s & ### 39 is opposed to the early abandonment of weapons and the precondition for the realization of much of the agreement, the delivery of land, for example, for disarmament.

Today, "Márquez" and the new guerrilla that bears the same name as the one he negotiated under his leadership in Havana explain, as part of the violations of the agreement, the reason for which he returned to hide and resumed his armed struggle. In the video, which has the same aesthetic and music as Farc's past ads, Márquez explains that the new Marquetalia was founded yesterday. More than 50 years ago, the birth of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia took place in a city with this man: "It is the continuation of the guerrillas in response to the treason of the State by the Peace Agreement of Havana. It is the march of Colombia, humble, ignored and despised, towards justice, which splashes the hills of the future. It will be true peace, not betrayed, spreading its wings of popular desires above the perfidy of the establishment. "

"I agree, of course, that the guerrillas will be in effect as long as the causes of the uprising are in effect," responds to an ex-combatant half-commanded during the war. Page / 12 if it supports the decision of dissent announced yesterday. On the verge of knowing he would return to the mountains, he says it's no longer time for him or for other tired and elderly people.

In the reincorporation spaces where about three thousand ex-combatants live on the more than eleven thousand engaged in the peace process, uncertainty has reached its limits. Also sadness. "In the morning, when this video came to my mind, my heart ached, my soul, everything hurt me, because going to war is the most difficult, "says" Maritza "under one of the roofs and between the walls they were installed two years ago and that, supposedly, it would be temporary, but their fate is uncertain. Although the government has repeatedly reaffirmed its commitment to peace over the last few days, Territorial Spaces are waiting for the new decree that gives the number a legal deadline expired on August 15th. For "Maritza", among these ceilings and with the productive activities that they realize themselves with the support of foreign funds, the days to come will be agonizing in the middle of a work without fatigue to come to the aid of those who remain in justice. "It is very difficult to know, already from the civil society, that this war will continue for our children, our grandchildren … It is a very difficult time. But just as we ask for respect before deciding to hold hands to let the war be behind us, we respect everyone's decisions. "