“Mocho Leiber” dies in a military operation, of the FARC dissidents

This Tuesday, November 3, the President of the Republic, Iván Duque, announced the death of Nelson Lerma Giraldo, known as Mocho bodies, after a military operation against the structure known as “Carolina Ramírez”. Giraldo is known He was coordinator of the FARC dissidence called “Jorge Briceño Suárez”, that operated in the departments of Putumayo and Caquetá.

In the coordinated operation between the Army, Police and Prosecutor’s Office, in the municipality of Puerto Guzmán -Putumayo-, Giraldo, 43, who was part of the FARC for 22 years, was discharged and he was, according to information from the National Government, one of the trusted men of the commanders “Iván Mordisco” and “Gentil Duarte”, who never joined the peace process.

For his part, Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said, in a video posted on his Twitter account, that at the time Mocho bodies belonged to the extinct Farc did “Courses on guerrilla, sniper, criminal intelligence, special forces, handling of explosives, finances, as well as political and command courses”.

During 2002 and 2005, Mocho bodies participated in armed actions against the security forces in Guaviare, including the installation of minefields and attacks with snipers. His nickname comes from an accident he had when in 2007 he lost his left hand when handling explosives.

The National Government assured that in January 2020, Mocho bodies gave the order to assassinate alias Abelard, alleged collaborator of the alias commission Tiger whom he accused of being a collaborator of the residual GAO E-48.

“Mocho Leiber ordered the murder of aliases Jeison, former member of the “Carolina Ramírez” dissidence in the urban area of Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo, and the murder of five citizens identified as collaborators of the GAO-r E-48, on the banks of the Putumayo River on the Lupita Peru sector ”.

This man operated, as revealed by the Defense portfolio, on the sidewalks Nuevo Horizonte, Tres Bocanas, La Conga, La Torre, Puerto Girasoles, El Cuatro, Los Muñecos, Los Mangos sector from the municipality of Puerto Guzmán and the villages of El Diamante, Puerto Mazo, La Esperanza, La Paya, Puerto Boy, El Yurilla inspection, El Mecaya district, Puerto Leguizamo municipality.

Violence in Colombia has escalated. This is evidenced by the 70 massacres perpetrated this year, according to Indepaz, which double those registered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in 2019. Although not all of them can be attributed to the FARC dissidents , the territorial struggle of these groups with other illegal armed structures has triggered expressions of violence, according to the Resource Center for Conflict Analysis (Cerac).

There are 30 criminal structures in the country that present themselves as dissidents of the defunct guerrilla, which signed the peace agreements with the National Government on November 24, 2016, according to Cerac. For experts, the current situation with these criminal structures is similar to what happened after the end of the process of laying down arms by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) in 2006, the year from which the well-known Bacrim began to be born. , one of them, the Rastrojos.

The structures that detracted from the most recent peace process lost the ideological character that the Farc had, assured the director of Cerac, Jorge Restrepo. “Its sole purpose is to profit from illegal economies such as drug trafficking and illegal mining,” the expert explained to the newspaper El Tiempo.

The Cerac theory is shared by the Director of Conflict Dynamics of the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, Juan Carlos Garzón, who recently told Infobae that, “now we have more fragmented structures, with multiple organizations, local influence and, in some cases, regional. They are actors whose ideology has lost strength, with certain exceptions ”.

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