Who is the Argentine accused of being a FARC guerrilla wounded in the protests in Bolivia?

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This photo published in the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo was cited by the Santa Cruz Police to identify Facundo Moreno Schonfeld, who belonged to the FARC.

(CNN Spanish) - The Bolivian Police said that in the protests this week in the municipality of Yapacaní, in the department of Santa Cruz, an Argentine man was shot, which according to the Police, is a “guerrilla” of the Forces Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC. However, this illegal armed group demobilized in 2016 after a peace process with the government.

Miguel Ángel Mercado, departmental commander of the Santa Cruz police, identified the injured Argentine as Facundo Morales Schoenfeld, 44, who due to the injuries received is in a coma.

Citing local Colombian press reports, Mercado said the Argentine is known as alias Camilo in the FARC and would be based in Colombia.

This photo published in the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo was cited by the Santa Cruz Police to identify Facundo Moreno Schonfeld, who belonged to the FARC.

According to Mercado, Morales Schoenfeld's father is the Argentine judge Nestor Hugo Morales, who arrived in Bolivia in recent days to see his son, who is admitted to a hospital in La Paz.

Police said they confiscated Morales's cell phone in which there were messages from his son Facundo related to the demonstrations.

In the chats that Mercado showed to the local media there were messages in which 'Camilo' told his father that “they had already taken the bridge”, referring to the Friendship bridge in Yapacaní, where clashes between protesters and the public force, and that he would be helping the Evo Morales government, Mercado said.

"The presence of this person with paramilitary training is not accidental," said Mercado, who said they will investigate in depth how the Argentine arrived in Bolivia and his alleged involvement with illegal armed groups.

Authorities reported that two representatives of the Santa Cruz civic committee died after being shot by a firearm and that Molares Schoenfeld "would have participated as part of the group that sought to open the civic blockade," the state news agency ABI reported.

FARC ex-combatant

Mercado cited a report from the newspaper El Tiempo of September 2017 in which this Argentine man is identified as alias 'Camilo'. In this note, the Colombian newspaper says that "the whereabouts of the FARC Argentine is a mystery."

"The last thing that was officially known is that his weapon was delivered to the La Carmelita sidewalk area in Putumayo," says the press report. "From then on, his destiny became a mystery both for the security agencies and, apparently, for the Farc themselves, who today they say they don't know what happened to him."

Sources from the Colombian Prosecutor's Office and the FARC told CNN that Facundo Morales joined the gurrillero group in 2002. Sources from the Ministry of Defense confirmed that they heard about him in 2010.

The senator of the FARC party, Julián Gallo, known as 'Carlos Antonio Lozada', who was commander of the FARC and negotiator of the peace process that signed the guerrilla with the government of Juan Manuel Santos in 2016. Lozada said that there was indeed a Argentine in the ranks of the guerrilla known as 'Camilo', but could not confirm with certainty his real name.

Alias ​​'Camilo' was always “dissatisfied” with the signing of the peace agreements, Lozada said.

"He did not agree and decided to leave, one would assume that for Argentina, but we lost track," Lozada told CNN in Spanish.

Lozada said that the Argentine was always considered more a political commander, than a military commander.

Regarding the information published by the Bolivian Police, Lozada said he has nothing to say. "It doesn't generate anything special for us," he said of the alleged link between the Argentine and illegal armed groups and their connection to the protests in Bolivia.

- With information Melissa Velásquez and Fernando Ramos of CNN in Colombia.

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