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This is Gustavo Angulo, better known as Cherry.
Authorities have captured the alleged perpetrator of the abduction of the team of the newspaper El Comercio de Quito killed in captivity by the dissent of the former guerrilla Farc, official sources informed yesterday.
Gustavo Angulo, known as Cherry, was arrested yesterday in an operation by the authorities of the Guayacana region, Department of Nariño, a convulsa coca zone border with Ecuador, The Minister of Defense Luis Carlos Villegas reported
Angulo "was the one who intercepted the truck in which they were mobilizing" the journalist Javier Ortega (32), the photographer Paúl Rivas (45) and the pilot Efraín Segarra (60), in the Ecuadorian city of Mataje, when they did a report on drug trafficking at the border at the end of March, he added.
Poster It was handed to the front by Oliver Sinisterra, commissioned by Walther Arizala, aka Guacho, a former Farc guerrilla who broke with the peace agreement.
The death in captivity of members of the journalistic team was announced by the Ecuadorian government on April 13 and their bodies were found at the end of June in the Colombian jungle.
The kidnappers demanded the release of the relatives of the Arizala prisoners in Ecuador, in exchange for the release of the hostages. According to the dissidents, the negotiations were frustrated by military operations
Following this case, Colombia and Ecuador launched a fierce hunt against Guacho on both sides of the border. As part of the offensive, the presumed guardian of the press group was arrested on 7 July.
In Guayacana, where Cherry was captured, three CTI agents from the Office of the Prosecutor were murdered on Wednesday by Guacho men, indicated by the Colombian authorities to be the arm of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.
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