This Friday The Military Forces announced that Néstor Gregorio Vera Fernández, better known as alias Iván Mordiscofell in a bombardment the previous week in San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá, and the coup was cataloged by the Government as one of the most important.
Defense Minister, Diego Molano, assured that with the fall of Vera Fernández it was possible to remove the “last bastion” of the FARC dissidents, since he served as the supreme chief of the main residual structure of the extinct guerrilla group.
According to the authorities, “Iván Mordisco” was a serious threat to national security by commanding the dissidence of the First Front of the extinct FARC that has a presence in Caquetá, Guaviare, Vaupés and Vichada. Up to 3,000 million pesos in reward were offered for him.
Who was Ivan Mordisco?
According to the records of the authorities, this subject became illegal more than 20 years ago in the ranks of the Farc. He entered as low-ranking guerrilla, but rose to sniper and explosives of the First Front “Armando Ríos”.
By 2012, “Mordisco” officially became the commander of that front. and from that moment he received orders from the so-called FARC Secretariatuntil the peace process with the Colombian government was completed.
In 2016, year in which the Peace Agreement was signedIt was an open secret that “Bite” would not support submission and laying down weapons. Precisely in mid-2016, he sent a letter to the Secretariat in Cuba and made it clear that he did not agree with the process and informed that he would not demobilize.
In the letter, alias Iván Mordisco assured that the First Frontunder his command, was not going to lay down his arms and invited the guerrillas who agreed with him to join forces to “continue with the insurgent struggle”. Thanks to these statements he became the first guerrilla leader to leave the peace process.
criminal history
General Luis Fernando Navarro, Commander of the Military Forces, stated this Friday that this subject was highly dangerous because he once abandoned the peace process, he began to commit crimes through different means to enrich himself and finance their actions.
“It was the first obstacle that appeared to the peace process. It was a clear threat once morest the Colombian State. He began to recruit and revive drug trafficking, extortion, illegal mining and the recruitment of minors”detailed the commander of the Armed Forces.
Within his record appear accusations for concert to commit crimeaggravated kidnapping, torture, homicide of a protected person, ecocide, forced displacement, illegal recruitment and drug trafficking.
According to the Colombian authorities, among the main terrorist actions for which they were looking for this ringleader is the kidnapping of a UN official in CalamarGuaviare, on April 10, 2017, and the murder of María Magdalena Cruz, leader of the Comprehensive National Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS) in Mapiripán, Meta, on April 1, 2018.
“Iván Mordisco” had become the most important subject in the dissidents because he replaced “Gentil Duarte” in the chain of commandwho died in Venezuela, and following this he undertook the confrontation once morest alias Iván Márquez, head of the other residual factionthe so-called Second Marquetalia.
