Interpol activates red alert against former FARC member "Iván Márquez"

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The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) activated three red circulars against Luciano Marín Arango "Iván Márquez", one of the leaders of the FARC dissidence, informed this Wednesday the director of the Colombian police Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia.

The National Police indicate that Colombia's request to reactivate the search for Márquez is due to "serious crimes committed between 2001 and 2002".

"We have formally asked Interpol's central office in Venezuela to locate and capture alias Iván Márquez who is in Venezuela to be extradited to Colombia and answer for these crimes," said Vargas Valencia.

This screenshot taken from YouTube and posted on August 29, 2019 shows former senior commander Iván Márquez of the demobilized group FARC, at an undisclosed location in Colombia.

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This same year, President Iván Duque assured, without presenting evidence, that the former guerrilla was on Venezuelan soil, for which he asked the United States to declare Venezuela a promoter of terrorism.

However, the US has not included Venezuela on this list, which includes Cuba, Iran, Syria and North Korea.

• Colombian Prosecutor's Office orders the capture of Iván Márquez in the investigation for the murder of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado

CNN asked the questioned government of Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday for a reaction to the allegations about the possible location of the guerrilla leader, but we have not yet obtained a response.

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In 2019 Maduro assured at the Foro do Sao Paulo (an international event of left-wing parties and organizations), that former FARC members Iván Márquez and Jesús Santrich were welcome in Venezuela.

The United States offers US $ 10 million for information that contributes to finding the whereabouts of the former FARC combatant, accused in this country of narco-terrorism and other crimes.

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The Colombian Attorney General's Office reported in February that it opened an investigation and ordered the arrest for investigative purposes of Iván Luciano Marín Arango "Iván Márquez" for his alleged participation in the murder of politician and journalist Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and his bodyguard, perpetrated on 2 November 1995.

"Iván Márquez" is a fugitive from justice and did not react to this announcement from the Prosecutor's Office.

In July 2018 he resigned from assuming a senatorial position that had been awarded to him as a result of the peace agreements with the government, of which he was one of the main negotiators.