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The magazine "Semana" publishes an article that discusses a project led by guerrilla dissent for some sort of reunion. Military forces say these groups are far from reaching it.
"In the heart of the jungle of Guaviare a plan is being forged to rebuild the Far c", begins the article published by Semana magazine in which a project is exposed to unite dissident groups and achieve a kind of revival of guerrilla warfare.
According to media reports, three FARC guerrillas who did not accept the peace agreement signed in 2016, Gener García Molina, aka "John 40"; Miguel Botache, aka "Gentil Duarte", and Edgar Salgado, aka "Rodrigo Cadete" began developing the idea of reunion a year and a half ago.
For this, he assures Week "the groups work together, collect money and move their bases among the communities" . Even, he adds, "would have a next date set for the meeting that would mark the resurgence" of which an indefinite number of insurgents would be part, since the figures vary among the 1,463 dissidents of those who speak official documents and 4,000 reported by foreign intelligence agencies "divided into 29 structures, present in 18 departments and 120 municipalities." However, according to the above-mentioned journalistic investigation, the intention is to invoke 8,000 fighters before the end of 2019.
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The leadership of the group would be in the hands of" Gentil Duarte ", who was the first guerrilla farc to leave the peace process and who, according to current estimates, would be accompanied by 250 men. Funding for both current illicit activities and possible "refounding" would be based on drug trafficking.
To this end, the magazine maintains, "John 40" is in charge of economic support "improve both crops and roads and export" cocaine, activities that would be conducted at both in Colombia and Venezuela and Brazil, where he would already have alliances with the posters Familia del Norte, Comando Vermelho and the First Commandment of the Capital.
The note also states that "on May 29, one of the Army intercepted a 14-person structure that was moving from Cartagena del Chairá to Putumayo to support the expansion of Cadete, a gang of common extortionists, that the FARC had armed and had a salary. The order, it seems, is to incite the new fighters with the 39, silver, instead of forcibly recruiting them. "
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In turn, would besiege the Territorial Spaces, zones of concentration where are the ex-combatants who underwent the process of peace "invoking the political moment of the country and the difficulties of implementation of agreements" in order to obtain new members.
In total, out of the 29 dissident groups of the FARC, only 11 expressed their intention to be part of the "refounding" process, according to the article. Walter Patricio Arizala Vernaza, aka "Guacho" leader of the Sinisterra Front Oliver, is composed of about fifty members who commit crimes in southwestern Colombia and on the border with the US. Ecuador. said publication saying that "the work and results show that the goal of these illegal armed groups with this goal is far from being achieved ", as revealed Blú Radio . In addition, they assured that they were trying to prevent these groups from acting in an articulated way.
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