The pressure that the entire country has been exerting over the condition of peace representative in which the government of Gustavo Petro has Alexander Diaz Mendoza, alias “Calarca Cordoba,” head of the Farc dissidence Estado Mayor de los Bloques y el Frente (EMBF), continues yielding results. The attorney general, Luz Adriana Camargo, requested from President Gustavo Petro the reactivation of the arrest warrants that have been issued against the criminal alias “Calarca.”
Those arrest warrants had been suspended on the occasion of the peace talks that the government and the EMBF have been holding, although, as society has claimed and as prosecutor Camargo demonstrated, that criminal structure has taken advantage to rearm, increase recruitment, even of children, and expand across different regions of the country.
Alias ‘Calarca’ continues committing crimes despite being a peace negotiator
To the formal request that prosecutor Camargo made to President Petro, a report from the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) was attached, which states that alias “Calarca Cordoba” continues “issuing clear directives” to members of his organization “for the systematic execution of punishable conduct after the suspension of his arrest warrants.”
The request to revoke the condition of negotiator or representative of the FARC dissidents of alias “Calarca” focuses on criminal acts that occurred, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, within the framework of those negotiations, that is, while the criminal leader enjoys the suspension of arrest warrants.
The CTI report of the Prosecutor’s Office confirms that alias “Calarca” coordinates the armed commissions “to consolidate his territorial hegemony” in the departments of Meta, Caqueta, and Guaviare. Investigators have found that the offensive actions directly ordered from his level of command “include continuous extortions, forced displacement, serious environmental crimes (deforestation) and premeditated military attacks, configuring a direct causal link between his orders and the documented macrocriminality.”
A few days ago, the country was shaken by a terrifying piece of news that originated from alias “Calarca Cordoba.” In line with what he has been doing, and despite being at a negotiation table with the government of Petro, he had a married couple kidnapped, who ultimately managed to escape.
The ordeal for that couple did not end there. Before being illegally detained, they took their six children to the jungle and hid them to prevent them from being incorporated into the ranks of the armed group. The children were lost for a few days, chased by the men of alias “Calarca,” but were finally rescued by the Army.
The abominable act was not included in the CTI report, but based on other manifestations of violence, prosecutor Camargo requested Petro to revoke the status of representative member of the Estado Mayor Central Farc-EP of alias “Calarca,” with which he was designated through Presidential Resolution 419 of December 29, 2023, and consequently to request the reactivation of the arrest warrants that have been issued against him, says in another section of the request of prosecutor Camargo to President Petro.
For the Prosecutor’s Office, it is clear that alias “Calarca” and the leaders of the structure known as Frente 33 continue in criminal activities, which include crimes against humanity or war crimes. For that reason, it was also announced that there will be a formal charging of offenses against the leader, today a peace negotiator.
As a consequence of the above, the Prosecutor Office also requested the revocation of the condition of representatives at the peace negotiation table held by the leaders of Frente 33 of the Farc dissidences Carlos Eduardo Garcia Tellez, alias “Andrey Avendano”; Jonathan Jair Narvaez Quintero; Farby Edison Parra Parra, alias “Richard”; and Javier Alonso Velosa Garcia, alias “John Mechas”.