The only thing that would have failed Facundo Molares Schoenfeld in recent years is health. After a succession of physical problems, he died on Thursday of heart failure, according to the first medical indications, and after being arrested and treated by the City Police when he demonstrated with the radicalized group of protesters at the Obelisk.
Molares was a former guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC) born in San Miguel in 1976, and had a voluminous record of violent and clandestine activities.
Clarín expanded that profile with more information than is already known, while sectors of the Government and militants of social organizations present the protester as a victim of justice and alleged police repression. However, Molares Schoenfeld, of parents of Spanish and German origin, did nothing but benefit from a long chain of judicial rulings and political decisions.
This newspaper was able to verify his criminal charges in Colombia through the official document that was presented when he sought to benefit from the guerrilla amnesty contemplated in the Colombian peace process.
A judge of that chamber recognized the jurisdiction of that court over the crimes requested by his defense, which curiously was Gustavo Franquet: a former Montoneros militant who today also represents the Mapuche activist, Facundo Jones Huala.
Clarín also accessed information from Argentine, Bolivian and Colombian police sources about the citizen whose nom de guerre was: "Facundo Fierro" or "Facundo el Argentino."
Facundo Molares.
As can be seen on the cover of this article, which corresponds to the files of the Amnesty or Pardon Chamber in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the crimes for which Colombia requested his extradition resurface: aggravated kidnapping for extortion, rebellion; terrorism; manufacture, trafficking and carrying of weapons and ammunition for the exclusive use of the armed forces; and illegal use of uniforms and insignia for the exclusive use of the armed forces.
But in addition, in the document dated July 6, 2022, it is reported that "The judicial authority" in the investigative process managed to establish that Molares Schoenfeld, a member of the extinct FARC Armed Group – which he said he had entered in 2003 and from which he said he left in 2017 to reunite with his family in Argentina – served "as an ideologue and politician of the First Company of the CMTFC of the FARC with an interference zone. in the departments of Huila, Caquetá and Putumayo, alias "Camilo el Argentino".
The militant also participated in the media kidnapping of Garzón Huila councilman José Armando Acuña Molina. It was on May 29, 2019, and during the guerrilla action three people were killed.
Molares Schoenfeld also actively participated in the release of the former councilman, and there are videos that show it.
The brief informs that Molares was wanted for all the crimes detailed above and that he was not included in the Final Agreement of Accreditation and Transition to the Legality of the Colombian peace process.
According to the documentation obtained by Clarín, in Argentina Molares Schoenfeld joined the Communist Party and the student movement and participated in communist unions and youth for almost 11 years.
But then he left and was one of the ideologues in the 4th Mobile Column Teófilo Forero, which was a military unit of the FARC guerrillas with operations in urban areas in southern and central Colombia.
An image of former guerrilla Facundo Molares Schoenfeld taken in Bolivia when he was wounded. El Tiempo, from Colombia
Beyond the fact that he said he joined the FARC in 2003, the sources consulted find him in an armed assault on the Miraflores building, in Neiva, in 2001, where 16 people were kidnapped in Colombia. One of them was Gloria Polanco, a former congresswoman, and her two children. Molares was also involved in the kidnapping of twelve deputies of the Departmental Assembly of Valle del Cauca in 2002. Only one abductee survived there.
The sources claim that he participated in the kidnapping of three US contractors: Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, and link him to a failed attempt against former President Álvaro Uribe in Barranquilla, in 2002.
From Colombia to Bolivia
On November 13, 2019, the Bolivian Police identified him as a member of the FARC in the protests that took place in that country and for which Evo Morales had to resign, when the dead already amounted to more than 30. It was after an election in which he was accused of trying to manipulate the results.
The Argentine member of the FARC was found seriously wounded in a confrontation between MAS and civic groups.
According to reports, it was learned that he was "an Argentine belonging to the FARC, who would be in the capacity of instructor in the area," the police report says. And then it became known that it was Molares Schoenfeld, 'Camilo.'"
According to police, he participated in a confrontation in the town of Montero and was injured. He was taken to the hospital on November 11. His parents traveled from Argentina to visit him and the Argentine State – governed by Macrismo – also provided assistance.
The police sought to know how he arrived in Bolivia and the relationships he maintained. After an investigation, it was reported that "conversations are observed on the phone about operations in favor of the government of Evo Morales," said the then interim director of the Special Force to Fight Crime of Santa Cruz. "The presence of a person with military training is not casual. He has been hired," police said, noting that his papers listed as a photojournalist.
For the Argentine security forces that then received information about the trajectory of the agitator, Molares Schoenfeld was "an important person linked to groups" of destabilization of social protests, through the "infiltration and training of militants" throughout the region and with the "collaboration of the narco guerrilla" throughout Latin America.
Last year, when the federal judge of Esquel Guido Otranto released him, the Télam agency refreshed some data on his judicial benefits. He recalled that Trevelin had been arrested on an international arrest warrant issued by Colombia's extradition warrant.
Two months later, his request for amnesty was submitted in Colombia. There, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) recognized its jurisdiction over the political crimes that Molares is accused of during the time he was part of the FARC, and rejected the extradition request recognizing the risk of life that his transfer to Colombia would imply.
This, according to his lawyers, generated a "legal vacuum" that evidently benefited him in his life in Argentina, which was extinguished on Thursday during the march.
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Leftist organizations marched to the Obelisk by Facundo Molares and a group attacked a dependency of the City Police
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