2023-05-24 21:57:33
Néstor Gregorio Vera, known by the alias Iván Mordisco, mocked Colombia. This criminal boss commands the so-called Central Staff, one of the Farc dissidents, accused by the government of Gustavo Petro of murdering four indigenous children in the last few hours in Putumayo. For this crime, this holiday Monday, the president suspended the bilateral ceasefire and ordered that operations against this criminal organization be resumed in the departments of Meta, Caquetá, Guaviare and Putumayo.
Mordisco had already kicked the attempt to dialogue with the Government. The start date for talks was agreed for May 16, but that deadline was not met. Now, the government blames them for a massacre of four indigenous children that has shocked the country. The act was committed by the Carolina Ramírez front, of the Central General Staff, according to the Government. “An atrocious fact that questions the will to build a country in peace. There is no justification for this kind of crime,” said the statement, published this holiday Monday by President Gustavo Petro.
The FARC dissidents, in another communiqué, criticized the government, calling it “the least serious to negotiate” and warned that “the dead will multiply.”
“The supposed government of change, which has not been seen more than in speeches and promises, continues in the continuism of assuming North American decisions quickly, as was shown by the presence of the United States Southern Command in the security council of the day of yesterday, May 21, 2023, from which it is concluded to officially and unilaterally break the ceasefire, once again violating the established protocol with the sophistry of a partial rupture of fire in Meta, Putumayo, Guaviare and Caquetá, action which in practice is to break with the Farc-EP as a whole and is in line with leaving the Amazon in the hands of NATO, for which the United States gave away a fleet of Black Hawk helicopters”, says the communication of the Mordisco dissidents .
The show of the capo Iván Mordisco: weapons, rivers of silver and threats to peasants
Behind the pompous reappearance of the head of the Farc dissidents, the criminal Iván Mordisco, in which he was not only seen armed to the teeth, using high-end trucks and with hundreds of spectators as if it were a play, there was a millimeter planning, to try to reflect the power of these dissidences, known as the General Staff.
WEEK reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how these dissidents organized everything so that the decision to formally sit down at the table with the Government had a national impact, and they did so. Threats, egos, intrigues, rivers of cash, and the shadow of the Mexican cartels, were part of the staging with which Néstor Gregorio Vera, better known as Iván Mordisco, armed and defiant, announced his decision to seek the negotiated exit.
The function had two previous episodes. First, Mordisco’s men spread the idea that the “General Staff”, the name by which this dissidence calls itself, was willing to negotiate and silence the rifles.
That was the kind scene, the second part of the script also involved Iván Mordisco’s men as main actors, but this time with rifles in hand and almost door to door, in different villages and towns on the Yarí plains. They made the “invitation” to the residents to go to the event on April 15. To guarantee assistance, they even handed over wads of money that they distributed so that there would be no problem in mobilizing. The message was clear and it became an order, rudeness was not the way.
According to information collected by the authorities in the field, it was revealed how close to 130 peasants from the municipalities of Cartagena del Chairá, Paujil, El Doncello and other municipalities of Caquetá, received the order to “attend, at least five people by neighborhood, to training in the Sabana del Yarí, village of the municipality of San Vicente del Caguan”.
The logistics were also agreed, finally the appointment was in the middle of a jungle area and difficult to navigate, the dissidents provided transportation and refreshments so that everything went as agreed. For Mordisco it was clear that it could not be a low-profile start of negotiation.
The event also had security equipment, rings were installed with armed people who carried out control work on the population on the entry and exit routes. Every citizen had to explain why, for what and how long they are going to be in the area.
Iván Mordisco would have had the support of his partners in the criminal business of drug and arms trafficking, the Sinaloa cartel. There is information that, in recent months, they have even held meetings with envoys of this cartel, have observed how far the agreements would go, and how to strengthen shadow businesses.
It is clear that drug trafficking businesses are a priority for Mordisco and his method of financing. Precisely for this reason, he never approached the negotiation with the FARC, in Havana, and continued trafficking; With that money, he strengthened his armed group both in men and in weapons.
These same men who remain uniformed with beige vests and caps, swamp boots and command baton, have become a kind of security scheme for Iván Mordisco and his men. The plans include turning them into a kind of rural police force, which could even monitor the concentration areas that have already been endorsed by the public order law.
Faced with the nascent negotiations, it has been determined that with their arch-enemies, the dissidents of the Segunda Marquetalia, led by Iván Márquez, who signed peace and returned to arms, have come together, not to act as a block or unite, but to lower the armed confrontation in the midst of the dialogues.
The one designated for the approaches was John Mechas, the same one who attempted against former president Iván Duque and who exploded a bomb against the Brigade in Cúcuta. And he is even building ties with the ELN.
For Mordisco, the conditions of the negotiation depend on the force with which they come to the table, which is why he is not only strengthening his criminal group with the latest technology weapons like those seen at the event eight days ago. He is also recruiting new men into his ranks, they are paid close to four million pesos and their goal, they say, is to reach 8,000. There is also the recruitment of minors, taken from their families to dress them in camouflage and put rifles on them.
Proof of this are the early alerts built by officials in the territory of the Ombudsman’s Office. “The division of the FARC dissidents has generated that children and adolescents from the indigenous and peasant communities are targets of forced recruitment. Under deceit or with persuasive methods, such as money loans, paid work, they are enrolled in their ranks,” said defender Carlos Camargo.
This is how Iván Mordisco’s symphony was conceived, a carefully organized event, with sound checks, lights, stages and an audience that did not have to pay for the ticket, admission was free and even compulsory. The next date will be on May 16, when the reflectors will be turned on again.
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