Colombia: Body of Salvadoran UN collaborator is found dead

The United Nations Verification Mission confirmed on Thursday that a lifeless body found in Colombia corresponds to David Alexander Rivas Palaciosan international observer of the UN of Salvadoran nationality who was missing.

Rivas Palacios, 40, suffered an accident on November 27 while rappelling in a rural area of ​​the Huila department, in southwestern Colombia. According to the Verification Mission, the accident occurred during Rivas’ day off in the Tune River basin.

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The UN Mission assured in a statement that Rivas’s identity was confirmed by Legal Medicine, the forensic authority in Colombia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador indicated through Twitter that they will continue to provide support to the Rivas Palacio family for the process of repatriation of their remains.

Rivas Palacios began his work as an international observer in April 2022 and in Colombia verified the implementation of the peace agreement signed in 2016 by the State with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), which was the oldest guerrilla in Latin America.

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The UN explained that Rivas Palacios worked in Huila in the area of ​​security guarantees for ex-combatants of the FARC, their families and the communities in the area.

“His colleagues and all Mission personnel pay tribute to him for his service in consolidating peace in Colombia,” indicated the UN in its message of condolences addressed to his family and relatives.

Source: Elcomercio

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