In Bogotá, they capture alias ‘Angie’, a member of the FARC dissidents

An operation of the Prosecutor’s Office, in conjunction with the Police, achieved the capture in Bogotá of alias ‘Angie’, according to the authorities, right hand of the repeat offender guerrilla commander alias Romaña. According to official information, the woman was part of the UNP protection scheme when she demobilized, but later took up arms again.

President Iván Duque, who reported on the capture, posted on his Twitter account: “Coup to crime: in a joint operation Dijín and the Prosecutor’s Office, Catalina Escobar Camargo alias ‘Angie’ or ‘Marcela’, head of GAOR Segunda Marquetalia, was captured in Bogotá. Requested for an aggravated crime conspiracy, she was a member of the Southern Bloc of the former FARC ”.

It also pointed out that, “Once again we tell ‘Narcotalia’ that we are going to confront them with all force; third blow to that structure and we continue behind all the leaders who are in that photo that obeys the Tartarinesque video that they published last year ”.

Duque indicated that their presence in Venezuelan territory is “clearly monitored. We know that they are protected by sectors that are related to the dictatorship and we know perfectly what their intentions are ”. Warned that “While they step on Colombian territory they will have no escape.”

He highlighted the task of the Prosecutor’s Office and stated that this capture “It is the triumph of legality ‘The one who pays it’, over terrorism.”

For his part, the director of the National Police, General Óscar Atehortúa Duque, confirmed that the captured corresponds to the name of Catalina Escobar Camargo, who was in the Puente Aranda sector, in Bogotá.

He added that through the work carried out by Dijin, it was detected that the woman apprehended today entered Colombian territory through Arauca from Venezuela and it was possible to verify that she was in Caquetá and then went to Bogotá.

According to the Police, ‘Angie’, who registers more than 12 years of criminal life, joined the instinct structure of the Farc when she was 13 years old, she became in charge of carrying out criminal coordination with residual structures of Casanare and Caquetá, in addition the structure was in charge of train her in nursing and in the management of communication equipment.

Before the peace talks, This woman was part of the Mobile Column ‘Teófilo Forero’ and the ‘South Block’ in their process of returning to civilian life, she worked as an escort for the National Protection Unit (UNP), but in 2019 she would have deserted, and he was seen in the video in which the creation of the FARC dissidents was announced with the presence of ‘Iván Márquez’, ‘Jesús Santrich’, ‘el Paisa’, ‘Romaña’, ‘el Zarco Aldinéver’ and ‘El Loco Iván’, among others.

The capture of ‘Angie’ is the third blow to this armed group: in May of this year, Audiel Pinto Calderón, known as ‘Korea’, a member of the so-called General Staff of the ‘Second Marquetalia’, was captured in Puerto Carreño, Vichada.

Likewise, at the end of July 2020, Francisco Antonio Durango, known as ‘Ariel’ or ‘Frita’, another member of the GAO-r, was captured in the rural area of ​​Maicao, La Guajira.

Alias ​​’Angie’ was brought to justice for the crime of aggravated conspiracy.

For his part, the Defense Minister, Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, congratulated the authorities for the forceful blow to the organization that left the peace talks in 2019. This is what the minister posted on Twitter: “They keep falling! @PoliciaColombia captured in # Bogotá alias ‘Angie’, head of the GAO-r ‘Segunda Marquetalia’ with a criminal history of 8 years and who appeared in a video circulated by networks, along with ‘Iván Márquez’ announcing the formation of that group. Congratulations! ”

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