The FBL guerrillas proclaimed themselves deeply Chavista and were attacked by the Venezuelan army for being enemies of the ELN

The Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), as part of Operation Vuelvan Caras 2022, arrested several people and raided the properties of William Alexander Rodríguez alias Román Pedraza, FBL/FPLN Commander (Bolivarian Liberation Forces or Patriotic Forces of National Liberation); vehicles were taken money and valuables are goneand they hid that this venezuelan guerrilla organization supported the bolivarian revolutionIt has a civil front called Revolutionary Current Bolívar y Zamora (CRBZ), it has mayors and deputies, it controls extensions of territory and possesses weapons, it has kidnapped, extorted and murdered. The reason why they have now decided to attack the FBL/FPLN It is because of this organization’s relations with FARC dissidents, but essentially because for decades They are enemies of the ELN, the guerrilla group closest to the Nicolás Maduro regime..

DGCIM officials acted under the orders of Major Néstor Neptalí Blanco Hurtado, head of military counterintelligence area No. 32 in Barinas. When the Strategic Operational Commander of the Armed Forces (Ceofanb), General Domingo Hernández Lárez, referred to the raid on the main farm of the local chief of Los Boliches, as locals call members of the Bolivarian Forces of National Liberation, now called Patriotic Forces National Liberation Forces (FBL/FPLN), refers to the fight of the Armed Forces against the TANCOL (armed Colombian drug traffickers), when In reality, they are Venezuelans who have been working for years in the states of Táchira, Apure, Guárico and Barinas, mainlyeven with cells in Lara, Portuguesa, La Guaira, among others.

Less mentioned that said organization has as civil facade there Revolutionary current of Bolívar and Zamora (CRBZ), which It has mayors and national and regional representatives, which have developed significant activity in the municipalities. The FBL/FPLN has maintained close contact with senior revolution officials, many of whom have traveled to boliche-controlled territories, know they possess arms and were on the payroll of the governor’s office of l’Apure, when the first president was Colonel Ramón Alonso Carrizalez Rengifo, a significant number of nightclubs appeared, which also disputed with fire and blood with the National Liberation Army (ELN) the territory, in particular that of the municipality of Páez de Apure.

It clearly turns out that the only detainees were the managers of the farms, where they found weapons, bracelets and other military equipment linked to the FBL/FPLN; and the only farm owner arrested is Argimiro Patiño Nieves, on whose property they found only a pamphlet and a sheet with writing alluding to the organization. But none of the commanders of this Venezuelan guerrilla organization have been arrested.. One of the detainees is a 15-year-old boy named El Menor, who had worked at said farm for four months and was reportedly found with 9mm ammunition in his pocket, but the only weapon found was a rifle “which is apparently a toy”.

It is important to note that later, on June 18, several members of the CRBZ were arrested, including Grismaldo Díaz, Yorliz Fernández, Braulio Márquez, Ariana Alcalá, Antonio Márquez, Jesús Pérez and Luis Rodríguez, who had all denounced the presence of the “Tancol groups” in clear allusion to the ELN and the attacks or robberies in the communes.

If there is anything to show that the DGCIM and Ceofanb know of the direct relationship between the FBL/FPLN and the Bolívar and Zamora current, it is that on the two farms where they found evidence against them, there was also evidence of the CRBZ.

The Los Guamos farm, alias Román, has 20 hectares and is located in the Guatarito sector of Santa Bárbara de Barinas: it had a green apple house of 12 x 20 square meters in blocks and concrete, with an acerolit roof, two bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bathroom. The soldiers demolished the house with their fists, explosives exploded in the farm; The FBL/FPLN did not speak out, Román fled, while some members of the CRBZ community were detained in Apure.

The DGCIM investigation assures that the leader of the Bolivarian Liberation Forces who changed his name to the Patriotic Forces of National Liberation (FBL/FPLN) is Romanian alias and the chief of operations is alias Yordano, but neither of them has been arrested.

They point the finger at Román for the mobilization of drugs and weapons, extortion and the collection of vaccines in Venezuelan territory, in collaboration with the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Among the list of those who belong to Los Boliches, as ordinary mortals call the members of the FBL/FPLN, the DGCIM mentions by pseudonyms: Larry, Elías, Yordano, Rony, Freddy, Alberto, Marcos, Aurelio, Junior, Marco, El Maracucho, Tulio; Also, Jonás González alias El Mono, Alfonso Gutiérrez alias Camasa, as well as Lenin alias Tuerto and Avispa.

From Erwin AI, a 15 year old teenager born in Coro, aka the lesser The DGCIM says he works under Román and was responsible for his farm Los Guamos, Guaratarito sector on the banks of the Caparo River, municipality of Ezequiel Zamora, State of Barinas, which was raided on June 5, 2022, by order of the Third Special Court of First Instance of Control in cases related to terrorism, corruption and organized crime.

During the raid, according to a DGCIM report, they found alias El Menor, who introduced himself as the temporary director of Los Guamos; officials reportedly found several 9MM caliber cartridges in his trouser pocket.

Officials say the farm was used as an operations center for paramilitary organizations operating in the area.

Many people in the area told GlobeLiveMedia that it was common knowledge in the region that this farm belonged to an FBL/FPLN leader. “In this farm, they frequently received officials, including military, and political leaders. It was no secret,” says Carmen Rosa, a dessert seller from Santa Bárbara de Barinas. It is important to point out that the head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Armed Forces (Ceofanb), General Domingo Hernández Lárez, who at the time announced the operation, but forgot to mention that it was not about TANCOL but from FBL/FPLN.

Among what was found in the farm of alias Román were a national identity card in the name of Yerinson Alexánder Palacios Otalora, as well as binoculars, 10 war pants of military uniforms, with patches of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), 10 military uniforms one pair of trousers, seven military hats for the jungle, one green cap with the Venezuelan coat of arms, one red beret, one camouflaged uniform including the jacket, which on the upper left arm has a patch with the flag Venezuelan, 12 green tactical vest liners, which on the back have patches with the initials “Bolivarian”.

They also found a military basic and instruction manual, three license plates and four empty cell phone boxes, including one for a satellite cell phone. They found five cases, 66 cartridges of caliber 5.56 mm, a yellow and red flag with the acronym CRBZ (Corriente Revolucionaria Bolívar y Zamora) and five bracelets of the same colors and acronyms and “Chavisme est commun ou rien”. Two portable memories, two SIM cards from the company Movilnet.

Near the house they found two motorcycles, a Ford Super Duty truck without license plates, a Toyota brand car, photocopies of Toyota vehicle certificates in the names of Francisco Joe Mora Sosa, Juan José Abreu Farías and Luis Ignacio Jesus Gonzalez Diaz.

According to the police, during the raid on the farm, they discovered that a man named Luis Rodríguez alias Luis Piropiro”, who would be the assistant and leader of alias Román and who owns a farm in the Guaratarito sector, on the banks of the Caparo River, Municipality of Ezequiel Zamora de Barinas, which they claim operates as a logistics and supply center for the FPL “Los Boliches” camps and their dissident FARC allies. Piropiro also has a hardware store in Santa Bárbara de Barinas According to farmers in the area, alias Román, he did not allow them to sell their farms or plots, he accused them of extortion, he banned them from fishing and if he discovered anyone one doing so, he forced them to eat the fish raw.

On June 9, 2022, a commission from Counterintelligence Base No. 3 in Barinas, which belongs to Region No. 31 Los Llanos, led by Inspector Raynier Martínez with agents Reymi Moreno and Yoender Volcanes, made a descent into the farm alias Luis Piropiro, where They detain Alexander Manuel Jaimes Neira, who was temporarily in charge of the farm. Officials claim that under the bed where he slept he had a bracelet in the colors of the flag, eight white stars and with the initials CRBZ and the motto “Chavisme is a community or nothing”, a portable radio and boxes of 55 caliber 5.56 ammunition without hitting.

The DGCIM says that the commander of the FBL/FPLN alias Román has several properties: two S/N houses in Santa Bárbara de Barinas, one located in the El Pastorcito sector, calle 60, at the end of El Araguaney street and another in the La Victoria sector, carrera 13 with calle 15. In addition, two farmhouses : one on the Paiba La Lucha highway in the municipality of Ezequiel Zamora called Chimiro and another belonging to José Baltazar Rangel Molina, who they say is the main logistician of the FBL/FPLN, who in turn owns the Baltazar farmhouse, located in the Barrancones Sector of the same municipality.

these sites would be centers of operations of the Patriotic Forces of National Liberation (FPLN)Therefore, on June 14, 2022, DGCIM officials Rayner Martínez, Carlos Henríquez, Reymi Moreno and Yoender Volcanes raided the Chimiro farm, raising suspicions that it is the only one of the razed farms where the owner, Argimiro Patiño Nieves. Officials emphasized that they were responsible for resolving disputes involving land invasions or the loss and recovery of livestock by order of alias Román.

In this farm, in addition to identity documents, a driver’s license and a road medical certificate, several vehicles, they found a pamphlet, one of which is distributed by the FBL/FPLN in all its areas of influence, and a white sheet that reads “El FBL commander, Gerónimo Paz, is a man of ideas and a fighter who goes from hamlet to hamlet, helping communities to organize themselves. Lina Ron” In the pamphlet it is said that “the FBL-EL is a political and social force that fights to defend the revolution and to build Bolivarian popular power within it”.

Among the things the police found was a 12-page book, on the cover of which is a photo of Hugo Chávez and it reads “Hugo Chávez Popular Defense Brigades, CRBZ”.

Javier Alfonso Gutiérrez Benítez alias Camaza, who was in a house on 12th Street, 18th Street in the Los Mangos sector in Santa Bárbara de Barinas.