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Weekly Report - 09 December 2021 (WR-21-49)
COLOMBIA: Dissident Farc chief suspected murdered by own men
The commander of Colombia’s national police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, said on 7 December that it is “very likely” that a leading commander in the dissident ‘Segunda Marquetalia’ unit of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) had been murdered in Venezuela. Vargas lent credence to media reports that Hernán Darío Velásquez (‘El Paisa’) had been killed by the guerrillas under his command. Media reports are now claiming that another of the Segunda Marquetalia’s leaders, Henry Castellanos Garzón (‘Romaña’), was killed alongside El Paisa. President Iván Duque suggested that these reports are accurate, but he did not directly mention Romaña.
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