The Ecuadorian Police arrest ‘Comandante Gringo’, leader of the Oliver Sinisterra Front, FARC dissident

The National Police of Ecuador announced this Monday the arrest in Ecuadorian territory of the Colombian Carlos Arturo Landázuribetter known as ‘Gringo Commander‘and considered the leader of the Oliver Sinisterra Frontone of the dissidents of the old Revolutionary Armed Forces in Colombia (FARC).

The arrest was made on Sunday night, in an operation on a property located in the province of Imbaburain the north of Ecuadorian Andesas detailed by the Police through their official channels.

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He Oliver Sinisterra Frontresponsible for the murder of three Ecuadorian members of the newspaper El Comercio in 2018, works between the Colombian department of Nariño (south) and the Ecuadorian province of Emeralds (north), where according to the Ecuador Police He has links to a criminal gang now considered terrorist by the Government.

The prison of ‘Gringo Commander‘occurs in the middle ofinternal armed conflict” declared since the beginning of January by the Government of Ecuador to fight gangs organized crimemainly dedicated to drug traffickingand which he classified as terrorist groups and non-state belligerent actors.

In mid-December they were captured in Esmeraldas, near the Ecuadorian border with Colombiafifteen alleged members of the Oliver Sinisterra Front, including Janer Cortés Ortizknown by the pseudonym ‘Clown‘, and who authorities identified as the third-in-command of this dissident.

According to the Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, ‘Joker’ would be responsible for activities related to drug trafficking in the border area.

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The Ecuadorian military immediately handed ‘Joker’ over to the Colombian army at the border bridge over the Mataje Riversince he was sued by the Colombian Justice on charges of qualified homicide in conjunction with manufacturing, trafficking, possession and possession of weapons.

The border area of ​​Esmeraldas with Colombia, where the Oliver Sinisterra Front operates, is one of the most turbulent in Ecuador due to violence by criminal gangs, which have turned it into a cocaine transport corridor to the Ecuadorian coast and ports.

The Oliver Sinisterra Front became known in Ecuador in 2018 for the murder of the journalistic team of the newspaper El Comercio, formed by the journalist Javier Ortegathe photographer Paulo Rivas and the driver Efrain Segarrain an action under the leadership of Walter Patrício Arizala (‘Guacho‘), who months later was killed in Colombian territory in a military operation.

Source: Elcomercio

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