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They were political rivals since the founding of the FARC party . "Iván Márquez" and "El Paisa" never accepted the leadership of Rodrigo Londoño, better known as "Timochenko" and head of said entity. And as soon as they again took up arms last August, presenting the new FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army) to the world, they decided to rid the differences by killing him.

They did not achieve their goal because the National Police thwarted the attack they intended to execute against the senator and President of the Common Alternative Force (FARC). The authorities knew from the beginning of this year, thanks to an informant, the intentions of those who now head one of the former guerrilla dissidents . He revealed the plans underway and a special operations team of the police traveled to La Cuchilla, a village in the Alcalá municipality, in the Valle del Cauca department, to reinforce the security of the farm where "Timochenko" spent the Christmas holidays.

On Saturday the two hitmen who would carry out the plan, were on a high-capacity motorcycle and did not respect the stop in a road control that the agents had mounted , according to the first information. The subjects "Guamby" and "Rabbit", instead of stopping, responded by pulling out their guns. The two died in the exchange of shots.

Both had a long criminal trajectory, had belonged to the former FARC, and for a time belonged to the so-called "soft steps" , an elite body of the guerrilla, expert in carrying out all kinds of attacks. In addition, they were from the bowels of "El Paisa", whose real name is Hernán Darío Velásquez, who was commander of the Teófilo Forero column, the bloodiest of the terrorist band , author of attacks such as the El Nogal Club in Bogotá.

Alias ​​"Rabbit" demobilized with the rest of his teammates and joined the UNP (National Protection Unit) as an escort. Hence, one of the guns, according to initial investigations, may have belonged to the state agency that protects threatened people in Colombia . It should be remembered that in the peace process they agreed that some thousand guerrillas could join the UNP to provide security service to both their commanders and other personalities, a decision that was very controversial in their day.

The senator of the FARC party, Carlos Antonio Lozada, published on his Twitter account that "regardless of who is behind trying to assassinate Rodrigo Londoño, the fact serves the interests of the extreme right and those who need to thin the environment to hide the scandal of the blows II (interceptions) and the failure of the Government of Iván Duque ".

The reaction is surprising because Lozada cannot ignore the real threat that exists against Londoño of his old comrades, nor that the FARC dissidents, including those of Márquez and "El Paisa", are responsible for the murder of numerous social leaders.

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