The media reported that the former leader of the Colombian rebels, Marquez, died

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According to information received from government sources and published by the newspaper El TimempoLuciano Marin Arango, known as Ivan Marquez, one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), died a year after a failed assassination attempt. Colombian authorities have yet to confirm official information about his death. The news was first broadcast on Channel One by journalist Yamid Amat, who claimed that Marquez did not fully recover from the attack.

Last July, Semana magazine reported on an assassination attempt on Marquez, which, according to the magazine, resulted in Marquez. dead. However, Colombian officials later said that the former FARC leader survived and was taken to a hospital in Caracas.

The armed conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC began in the 1960s and claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people and turned millions of local residents into refugees. On November 24, 2016, an agreement was signed in Havana to end the dispute between the Colombian government and representatives of the FARC. After the disarmament of the rebels, a political party was formed on the basis of their organization, under the control of an international monitoring mission with the support of the UN.

In August 2019, a video of Marquez’s speech was posted on YouTube in which some former rebels announced their intention to return to armed struggle.

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