Captured alleged guardian of Ecuadorian journalists

The Office of the Prosecutor explained in a message broadcast on its social networks that captured in the municipality of Santander de Quilichao, in the department of Cauca, Vargas Cuajiboy, who is the fourth in the line of command of the dissident group of the former guerrilla group of Farc, calling "Frente Sinisterra Oliver "

The authorities of Ecuador and Colombia attribute to this group the kidnapping, on 26 March, of the journalist Javier Ortega, the photographer Paúl Rivas and the driver Efraín Segarra, who went to the border region. to prepare a report on the daily El Comercio: security in the region

Shortly after this dissent, led by Walter Patricio Arizala Vernaza, aka "Guacho", badumed responsibility for the abduction and the 13 april the mead Ecuadorian identity, Lenin Moreno, confirmed the triple murder.

The Colombian prosecutor's office also announced that he had "obtained a warrant for arrest" against "Guacho" as "the main determinant of the kidnapping of Ecuadorian journalists."

The abduction and murder of Katty Velasco Pinargote and Oscar Villacís Gómez, an Ecuadorian couple who had gone to Esmeraldas and who had been abducted.

The abduction of the Ecuadorian couple was reported on April 17 by the government of that country, which revealed at that time, a video in which Velasco and Villacís are seen and guarded by men armed with rifles.

The bodies of the journalists and their chauffeur as well as the couple were found in recent days in a tomb in a jungle in the municipality of Tumaco, one of the most violent regions of Colombia, where gangs of drug traffickers, FARC dissidents and other groups cocaine routes and coca crops.