The head of the largest dissident branch of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group called on other rebel groups to unite to combat United States interventionism in the region, in a video message confirmed by the group as authentic on Friday (9).
The call made by leader Nestor Gregorio Vera, better known by his nom de guerre “Iván Mordisco”, comes after the US incursion into neighboring Venezuela, which resulted in .
“The shadow of the interventionist eagle hovers over everyone equally. We ask you to put these differences aside,” Vera said in a video in which he appears dressed in camouflage clothing and surrounded by two heavily armed guerrillas.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter who promised to bring peace to the country after more than six decades of internal armed conflict, US President Donald Trump in Washington in February, the American said on Friday (10).
The planned meeting comes days after Trump threatened Colombia with military action. The American has repeatedly accused the Petro administration, without evidence, of allowing a constant flow of cocaine to the US, to the Colombian leader in October.
“Fate is calling us to unite. We are not dispersed forces, we are heirs of the same cause. We will weave unity through action and forge the great insurgent bloc that will push back the enemies of the homeland”, added Vera in the video addressed to the National Liberation Army (ELN), Segunda Marquetalia and the Guerrilla Coordinating Board of the Bolivarian Army, which also emerged from the former FARC.
However, it did not include the FARC’s second largest splinter group, known as the Central General Staff, which split in 2024.
In total, the groups that the insurgent leader proposed to join have more than 11,000 members. Its main criminal activities are drug trafficking and illegal gold mining, according to security sources.
