Red House (Colombia), April 16. Néstor Gregorio Vera Fernández, alias “Iván Mordisco” and senior leader of the Central Staff (EMC), the main dissidence of the FARC, this Sunday asked the guerrillas of the Army to National Liberation (ELN) to “put an end” to the active conflict between these two groups.
In front of some 6,000 people who came from all over Colombia to take part in a demonstration for peace organized in the Llanos del Yarí, in the department of Caquetá, “Iván Mordisco” addressed the guerrillas, who are also carrying out a peace negotiation with the Colombian government.
“We call on the comrades of the National Liberation Army to end the war between our organizations, a conflict that only benefits the powerful class of the country and enriches those who live from the arms market,” he said. the insurgent leader.
For this reason, he continued, the EMC will do “everything possible to seek reconciliations where we can understand each other for this important task”, for which the Magdalena Medio Bloc was appointed, led by the commander ” John Mechas”, credited with attacking former President Iván Duque in Cúcuta two years ago.
On the outskirts of the Red House, peasants, indigenous and Afro people gathered this weekend to demand that dissidents and the Government hold a dialogue table in which social organizations are included.
In front of them, “Mordisco” intervened “with a feeling of great joy and gratitude” in “this important meeting”.
DOORS OPEN TO PEACE
The insurgent leader said that the doors of “peace with social justice” are “reopening” with this process, still in its infancy, with the government which will have “the people as sovereign”.
The EMC “from March 29 to April 13, 2023” met “somewhere in the plains of the Yarí”, a meeting whose result was “the conviction and the hope that from this starting point, we can start building the roadmap that will help Colombia eradicate the causes that gave rise to the armed uprising,” “Mordisco” explained.
“We hope that the current government will provide the conditions and the mechanisms to build the said agenda”, added the guerrilla leader, who insisted that they engage with “each of our organizational structures accompanying the process of dialogue “.
This after it has already been questioned that not all EMC dissidents will join a hypothetical peace.
In this regard, “Mordisco” justified that “dispersion” made “difficult to make decisions for the benefit of the vast majority”.
“However, what we can say today is that it is a cycle that has been overcome and to the people, who believe in us despite our difficulties, at this time we are rewarding them with the great news of the unity of all Farianos”, he said. said.
REAPPEARANCE OF “COCK”
The dissident leader had not appeared publicly for months after then-President Duque’s government celebrated last year that it would have sacked him in a military operation in July.
However, this action was denied by the EMC and months later, in September, the Chief of the Central General Staff appeared in a video and said that this group was ready to accept a ceasefire. bilateral fire with the government of President Gustavo Petro.
This Sunday he appeared again to participate in the meeting in which this group announced the results of the meeting of its commanders and informed that the dialogues with the government will officially begin on May 16.