State Colombian this Wednesday confirmed the death of Felipe Alcócer Alvarino, a member of the ELN national leadership, during the military operation on Saturday in a rural area of the Bolívar (northern) department. Operation Medusa was carried out in Morales and there two others were also killed and six more capturedIncluding Violeta Arango Ramírez, who allegedly planted a bomb in the Andean Mall in Bogota in 2017, leaving three dead and 10 injured.
Alcócer, aka ‘Pirry’, was the main leader of the Darío Ramírez Castro Front, a member of the national leadership of the National Liberation Army (ELN), and “in Colombia, criminals were developing actions, 51-year-old guerrilla,” Defense Minister Diego Molano told a press conference. He added that the “36-year history of crime” came to an end with the death of its chief and the murder of the guerrilla. responsible for terrorist attacks, kidnapping of villagers, traders, farmers and actions against oil and energy infrastructure from the country. Molano said that in the nearly four-year offensive against the ELN, 2,247 members of this guerrilla were captured, 120 were killed, and 1,005 were discharged and are in the process of returning to normal life.
The information indicates that the other two dead persons were ‘Pirry’ security chief César and one of the escorts, ‘David’. Minister Molano reminded that she was accused by the authorities, nicknamed ‘Violeta’, of placing an ‘explosive device’ in the bathrooms of the Andean Shopping Center in June 2017. In June 2018, Control of Guarantees in Bogotá, the 16th High Criminal Court extended an arrest warrant for a woman with a blue Interpol circular who had fled justice and was arrested for conspiracy to commit crime and terrorism.
On June 17, 2017, an explosion was recorded in one of the women’s bathrooms of Andino Shopping Center in an exclusive area of Bogotá, which claimed the life of French volunteer Julie Huynh, 23. at a public school in the city and Colombians Ana María Gutiérrez, 27, and Lady Paola Jaime, 31. Colombian authorities blamed the People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP), which is similar to the ELN guerrilla ideology.