In compliance with the Bicentenary Campaign Plan Heroes de la Libertad, troops of the Rapid Deployment Force No.2, attached to the Joint Task Force Hercules, in coordination with the National Police, captured alias “Chapi”, a member of the support networks of the residual organized armed group, GAO-r in Spanish, “Oliver Sinisterra”, in the municipality of Tumaco, in the department of Nariño.
Alias “Chapi” was member of the residual group for about four years and was wanted for her participation in the murder of the cultural leader, Lucy Itayosara Villareal, in December 23, 2019 in the municipality of Llorente. In the same way, she would be related to other murders in the region and terrorist operations carried out by the GAO-r “Oliver Sinisterra” in the Pacific region of the department of Nariño.
The woman had an arrest warrant in force for the crime of personal injury issued by the prosecutor's office 11 of the local investigations and judicial group.
This capture takes place in the frame of the strategy of the Plan of Timely Operation (PAO in spanish), headed by the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defence, the Attorney-General's office, the military forces and the National Police, which has as objective the clarification of the murders committed against social leaders, human rights defenders and former combatants.
With this result, the command and criminal control of the armed group is significantly reduced, as well as the logistical capacity of the support networks that exercise criminal control in the towns of the municipality of Tumaco, such as El Diviso, El Pailón, La María, Berlin, La Guayacana, La Viña, El Pinde, Vaquerio, Llorente and Caunapí.
