
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced this on Monday He ordered a military attack And in the Guaviare Forest (southeast), against the leader of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), nicknamed Ivan Mordesco, where bombings are being carried out to dismantle the armed front that is active in that region.
“Military attack against Ivan Mordescu in Guaviare. Ho He ordered the bombing And the military solution of the front controlled by the military forces,” the president wrote in X.
The Minister of Defence, General Pedro Sanchez Suarez, announced in the early hours of Monday the beginning of the operation, stressing on the same social network that it was a “strong operation.” Attack against “narco-terrorist structures affiliated with the Mordesco gang.” “that threatened and blackmailed local communities and farmers” in Guaviare.
Sanchez Suarez explained: “Since early morning, our military forces and the National Police have been carrying out this operation in the Guaviare forests (…). The operation is developing.”
The alias Ivan Mordesco, whose real name is Nestor Gregorio Vera, leads the Central General Staff (EMC), the main dissident of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that withdrew from the 2016 peace agreement, and currently has a presence in several regions of the country, including Caqueta, Meta, Guaviare and Putumayo.
yet, Neither the government nor the military forces provided any balance to the results of the attackThis is within the framework of intensifying operations against that armed organization after the suspension of the ceasefire in several regions of the country.