The commander of the ELN was convicted for the murder of two police officers in 2019

On the afternoon of February 19, 2019, police officers from the Police Álvaro Marín Marín and Juan Carlos Barreto Guzmán were having lunch in a restaurant when they were attacked by a commission commander Jaime Toño Obando of the Frente Comunero del Sur del National Liberation Army (ELN).

The illegal armed organization declared the mayors of Barrancabermeja, Alfonso Eljach, and the mayor of Yondó, Fabian Antonio Echavarría, as “military targets”. For this reason, the leaders of this guerrilla, among which were aka H.H.has been entrusted with several of the criminal actions that have been carried out during the Weapon plan in 2019.

Months after his arrest, the guerrilla leader signed a preliminary agreement with the Attorney General in which he admitted shooting and killing the patrollers. After ratifying the negotiation, a knowledgeable judge sentenced 30 years and eight months in prison to alias Guatin, Two days before the murder of the two patrolmen in the restaurant, two contract killers approached two police officers from the tax police there customs who were at a checkpoint on the José Antonio Páez bridge, in arauca.

According to the story that was known in the case, the members of the Police They shot them and then fled down a track to a Venezuelan municipality.

Guillermo Botero, former Defense Minister of Colombia
Guillermo Botero, former Defense Minister of Colombia

Guillermo BoteroThen he Defense Minister referred to the case and confirmed that it was an attack and a summons from the National Liberation Army which was given in response to the closing of the dialogue table in Havana, that the president ivan duke He was sentenced in February 2019, just after this guerrilla group carried out one of the worst terrorist attacks that Bogotá has suffered. The car bombed against the Police Cadet Military School caused the deaths of 22 uniformed officers.

Thanks to the material seized from the guerrillas of National Liberation Army Following the attack, the president asked Cuba to capture the guerrilla leaders who were acting as negotiators in Havana, but the request was not granted. Meanwhile, during this year, the authorities have pointed out the difficulty of fighting the guerrillas, since the leaders who were not sheltered on the island, were sheltered in Venezuelan territory, where they cannot be reached by arm of the public force Colombian.

precisely the minister Botero He gave the order that the pistol plan could arrive on the other side of the border. In the case of the two police officers killed in arauca it is inferred that the case was in retaliation for contraband seizures the Elenos were handling.

The contract killers, who took refuge in Venezuelawere sent by Gustavo Giraldo, alias Pablito, the head of the Domingo Laín front, one of the most powerful structures of the guerrillas, whose movements were also recorded in the neighboring country.

He former minister of defense Botero assured that in four months the guerrillas National Liberation Army carried out actions against pipeline infrastructure Caño Limon Covenasattacks against the Force Publique and the planting of pamphlet bombs in Bogotáincreasing fear and anxiety in the Republic capital.

Regarding the attack, ecopetrol issued a statement in which rejected illegal actions and called for the cessation of crimes against infrastructure that endanger the integrity of people, also leading to serious consequences in the environment that affect community activities and the oil industry.

In the current scenario, the peace delegation of the National Liberation Army I manage to Mexico to start the second cycle of peace, ended on February 11, 2023.

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