Ivan Mordisco (Nestor Gregorio Vera Fernandez) commands the Central General Staff (EMC), a major dissident faction originating from the defunct FARC. The EMC carried out a cylinder bomb attack on a Cali air base that killed six and wounded over 70. President Gustavo Petro called Mordisco a drug trafficker posing as a revolutionary and categorized the attack as crimes against humanity. The government plans to classify the EMC, the Second Marquetalia, and the Gulf Clan as terrorist organizations. Negotiations began October 8, 2023, included a bilateral ceasefire, but the EMC fragmented in April 2024 amid renewed violence and defections.
Colombia's third-largest city is under siege by Ivan Mordisco, a veteran warlord, presumed dead on more than one occasion, who refuses to lay down his arms. Nestor Gregorio Vera Fernandez, his real name, heads the structures grouped within the self-styled Central General Staff (EMC), the largest dissident group of the defunct FARC guerrilla organization, which this week launched a cylinder bomb attack on an air base in Cali, leaving six people dead and more than 70 wounded.
Mordisco is a traqueto (drug trafficker) dressed as a revolutionary, as President Gustavo Petro has defined him. What happened in Cali shows us the shift of Ivan Mordisco's dissidents toward purely terrorist actions, the president said after last Thursday's attacks, which he considered crimes against humanity. The EMC, the Second Marquetalia, and the Gulf Clan, all FARC offshoots and heirs to paramilitarism, will be considered terrorist organizations, prosecuted anywhere in the world, Petro emphasized.
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