Otty Patiño said the Government is investigating the alleged death of Iván Márquez: “If he died, he died in Venezuela”

<img alt="The Farc Second Marquetalia opposition leader, Ivan Marquez, agreed to this structure during the ceremony in which the negotiating table was installed – credit Ronald Peña R./EFE
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The Farc Second Marquetalia opposition leader, Ivan Marquez, agreed to this structure during the ceremony in which the negotiating table was installed – credit Ronald Peña R./EFE

Luciano Marín Arango, better known Ivan Marquezand who acts as the leader of the Second Marquetaliawho died in Venezuela. This is the version analyzed by the national government, as confirmed by the peace commissioner advisor, Otty Patiño, on Tuesday, October 22, who referred to this issue in light of the versions that have emerged on this issue and that generated a media whirlwind. on social networks. Especially since this is not the first time that this event has been considered, since in July 2023 his death was also reported.

The head of the organization that seeks peace in the national territoryhe first expressed that he hopes “what has started to be said about this rebel leader is not true.”who betrayed the peace process with the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), after even representing the Chamber. Although he did not rule out if this version of his death is confirmed, he is sure that they will have to continue to seek an agreement with this criminal structure.

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“It is not confirmed, we investigated in different ways, but we have neither confirmation nor denial. The latest information is that he may have died through an operation, not a military operation., but surgical operation, surgerybut not more,” said Patiño, at the end of the installation of Casa Pacífico, during the Biodiversity Summit, better known as COP16, which is taking place in Cali (Valle del Cauca), and which will extend to the November 1.

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Iván Márquez is one of the founders of the so-called Second Marquetalia, to which the alias Jesús Santrich was also involved, before his death – credit given to Infobae Colombia

“The Second Marquetalia knows nothing either because Marquez lived in Venezuela and the fronts are here in Colombia. If he died, he died in Venezuela“The senior executive officer, entrusted by the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, to carry out the Total Peace policy, to the point that he recalled the attack suffered by the leader of this organization, in June 2022. , when he found a box of cigars, which contained an explosive charge that caused his injuries.

Patiño made it clear that in the case of Marín Arango’s death, the process must continue anyway; despite the fact that one of the conditions of this disagreement was that the main leader would be part of the delegation. “We are going to continue it with the people they nominatecelebrating the territorial efforts that are already taking place in Nariño, Putumayo, in Vichada, I think that is very important,” said the commissioned adviser.

The last time Iván Márquez appeared in public It was during the installation of the negotiation table between the national government and this organization outside the law, which happened in Caracas (Venezuela), on June 24. The former member of the FARC secretariat then had a false hand, the right hand, which he would lose in the aforementioned attack against him. In addition, he would have lost sight in one of his eyes, which made it difficult to stay in Venezuela, as it is known since then.

Otty Patiño, adviser to the Commissioner for Peace, expressed his regret if the death of the alias Iván Márquez is confirmed – credit Rayner Peña R/EFE

Marín Arango, her first surname, who returned to the mountain in 2019, when she abandoned her seat as a representative in the Chamber and after a judicial process against one of her nephews for drug trafficking, who was born on June 16, 1955 in Florencia (Caquetá) and from a very young age he showed his insurgent spirit. After completing his secondary studies at the Normal Nacional, an educational institution that prepared teaching professionals, he joined the Colombian Communist Youth movement (JUCO) in 1977.

Vásquez worked as a biology teacher at the School of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from El Doncello (Caquetá), where he stayed for three years. While in 1985 he joined the party Patriotic union; the political wing of the FARC, which raised the Colombian flags on the left. Since then, he made his way into the FARC structure, until he reached the secretariat of the illegal armed group, from which he separated when the Peace Agreement was signed with the State, in November 2016; after more than 40 years of armed struggle.

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