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Twitter & YouTube Suspend Accounts of Colombian Guerilla Leader Iván Márquez & Others Twitter & YouTube Suspend Accounts of Colombian Guerilla Leader Iván Márquez & Others Lead Photo: Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Read more After recently posting a video on social media expressing his support for the revocation of the mandate of Colombian President Iván Duque, Twitter and YouTube have shut down the accounts of Colombian guerrilla leader Iván Márquez. The social media platforms also suspended the accounts of guerrilla leader Jesús Santrich and ...

The 22-year-old became the 250 th former guerilla fighter to be killed in Colombia since the signing of the 2016 peace accord designed to end the decades-old conflict. She was reportedly leaving a party with her younger sister, Reina Zabala Mazo, in the early hours of the morning when unknown assailants opened fire, killing the pair. Ms Mazo was known by the nom de guerre Liliana Estrada during the conflict. She was part of the ranks which demobilised following an agreement that saw Farc lay down its arms and become a legal political party, the Alternative Revolutionary Force for the Common P...

December 14, 2020 Colombia’s prosecution and an informant who would later falsely accuse a former rebel leader of drug trafficking for the DEA reportedly sought to derail the peace process since the beginning. According to news website La Nueva Prensa, leaked recordings reveal that Marlon Marin was working for the prosecution before conspiring with the American counternarcotics agency. The failed conspiracies led Colombia’s war crimes tribunal to order investigations into former Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez and multiple DEA agents in May 2019. Prosecution sought to entrap l...

December 14, 2020 A US Embassy official was actively involved in a DEA conspiracy to discredit Colombia’s war crimes tribunal last year, evidence released by Noticias Uno showed. In a letter, Special agent Craig M. Michelin of the DEA’s Country Office asked his liaison at Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office in February last year to provide $500,000 for an illegal operation against the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). Local media previously implicated Michelin in a conspiracy that led to the arrest of former FARC ideologue “Jesus Santrich” that sunk Colombia’s peace proce...