Gabriel Angél, leader of the Comunes Party, the successor of the former FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and later the Revolutionary Alternative Force in the House of Commons, UOL He said his party was not involved in the criminal activities of dissidents working in partnership with Brazilian miners in Venezuela.
“The Party of the Communes is a political organization born out of peace agreements,” Angel said in a message to the report. He said he was not in a position to report on illegal mining activities, and that he was aware of the involvement of dissidents in the assassinations.
“These groups are responsible for the killing of many of those who were reintegrated into legal life after the peace agreement, those who became militants in the Communes,” Angél told the report. “Some leaders and militants of our party were threatened by these groups from the north.”
There are two paramilitary groups operating today, according to Christian Ávila, a doctor in corporate affairs from the PUC in Minas Gerais who has studied the work of former FARC guerrillas, including in illegal mining. One of them was led by Gentil Duarte, who died a few weeks ago. According to Gabriel Angél, his band is called “Farc-EP”.
The other group is commanded by Iván Märquez. According to Angél, the band is called “Segunda Marquetalia FARC-EP”. HE UOL He failed to locate FARC opponents who worked with Brazilian miners in the illegal exploration of gold and other minerals in the Amazon, including Venezuela.
According to Angél, the two groups are “armed groups without an overt political direction” involved in the crimes.
“These groups have units operating in parts of our country and apparently also operate in some border states between Venezuela and Colombia.” One of these places is the state of Amazonas. Christian Vianna, a researcher and federal police officer who has worked in the area, said there are, for example, large numbers of Brazilian miners in Puerto Ayacucho in Venezuela’s Amazonas state.
“These characters operate underground,” he said.
In 2017, the FARC laid down arms and officially entered politics, the party now called Comunes, the former Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común.
Colombia will decide who will be the next president in a runoff this month. The two candidates had a relationship with the guerrillas in the past. One is Senator Gustavo Petro, a former M-19 guerrilla who also participated in the peace deal. The other is engineer and former mayor Rodolfo Hernández, whose daughter was killed by ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrillas and whose father was kidnapped by the FARC.
source: Noticias
[author_name]
