Felipe Alcocer Alvarino, better known by the aliases of Gustavo or Pirry, who would be one of the main leaders of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and one of the most wanted criminals in the south of Bolívar, was discharged this Saturday in the midst of operations carried out by the Army in this region.
‘Pirry’, according to the authorities, was the current commander of the Darío de Jesús Ramírez Castro War Front.a structure that manages the ELN fronts and companies in the subregions of Bajo Cauca, Northeast and North Antioquia.
In the middle of the operation, the authorities captured two women, one of them is Violeta Arango Ramírez, known as alias ‘Violeta’ or ‘La Rola’the same woman accused of allegedly locating an explosive in the Andino shopping center, in the north of Bogotá, on June 17, 2017 and that left three people dead and ten more injured.
The capture of ‘Violeta’ was highlighted by the president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, who through his Twitter account maintained that: “we continue to confront crime without respite. In the municipality of Morales (Bolívar), alias “Violeta”, a member of the “Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo” and linked to the ELN, was captured. accused of the terrorist attack in 2017 once morest the Andean Shopping Center in Bogotá.
According to preliminary reports,Pirry’ would have managed to flee on Friday, June 3, when the operation to capture him began. However, operations continued this Saturday and in the midst of a confrontation with Army troops and uniformed Police officers, he was killed.
“Because he is the top leader of the FGDRC, not only the structure would be affected in the political, economic and armed aspects, but also the central command and control of the ELNgiven the fact that a renowned leader in DINAL would lose, due to his experience in directing strategic objectives,” the authorities reported.
The military operation left another woman capturedwho is observed in the video, who has in his possession WEEK, going down second in the helicopter; she has reddish hair and wears rubber boots. She, according to the official versions, would be the girlfriend of David, one of the men who was in charge of Pirry’s security.. Another man was also arrested.
Likewise, César, another of the men who was part of the security scheme, was discharged by Alcocer Alvarino.
Alias ’Pirry’, moreover, He was part of the cartel of the 30 most dangerous criminals and responsible for the recruitment, use and use of children and adolescents in Colombia, according to Defense Minister Diego Molano.
For information that would allow the location and capture of this criminal, the authorities offered a reward of up to 538 million pesos. In addition to this, this subject had an arrest warrant for the crimes of aggravated rebellion, aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime, selective homicide, qualified theft and drug trafficking.
According to investigations carried out by Military Intelligence, ‘Pirry’ participated in the year 2000 in the release of hostages from the Avianca Fokker plane, flight 9463which departed from the Palonegro airport in Lebrija (Santander), bound for Bogotá and was diverted to the South of Bolívar on April 2, 1999, one of them mentally disturbed due to captivity, then handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (Cicr).
