Alias' Camilo ', the Argentine who belonged to the FARC and who Piedad Córdoba does not want to be extradited to Colombia

Facundo Molares Schoenfeld, better known as alias' Camilo ',' Argentino 'or' Che ', was a member of the extinct guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC, where he stood out in the column 'Teófilo Forero'.

Molares submitted to the Peace Agreement that ended with that guerrilla group in 2016, but as Peace Commissioner Juan Camilo Restrepo Gómez indicated to the newspaper El Tiempo: “The Argentine citizen appears in the general lists of demobilized persons, but he never appeared and was left out of the peace process because he was not accredited.”

Alias' Camilo 'was later identified in Bolivia in 2019 and despite claiming to be a photojournalist, he was arrested by the authorities of that country. At the time, the interim government of Jeanine Áñez Chavez showed documents that revealed that Molares Schoenfeld, who was a member of the Communist Party in Argentina, had been part of a FARC column in Colombia, had arrived in Bolivia as an “instructor” of the MAS factions that would defend Evo, for which they accused him of have participated in the clashes in Montero.

After complications caused by the coronavirus and kidney failure, he returned to his native Argentina to be captured in the province of Chubut, north of that country at the end of last year.

A red circular from Interpol rests on Facundo Molares Schoenfeld, requesting it in Colombia for the aggravated kidnapping of Deputy Armando Acuña and for trafficking and carrying firearms for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces.

There is audiovisual material showing alias 'Camilo o Che' in the release of deputy Armando Acuña kidnapped in 2009. This fragment shows Piedad Córdoba, along with the deputy released in a cloth dress that would have been forced to wear. This fact came to be strongly questioned including by Acuña himself, who pointed to his release as a media show.

For her part, Piedad Córdoba said days after Morales's capture in Argentina: “I think what is happening is unfair, I demand freedom and not extradition. If for what they accuse him was done within the war, I don't see why the Colombian government is demanding extradition to respond to issues that were made in the armed conflict that, later in the agreement, it is understood that no one should be called to trial,” he said in a video published through digital networks.

The national government, for its part, hopes that Facundo Molares Schoenfeld will be extradited from the maximum security prison in Ezeiza, who had a case unfiled in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace on February 24. Sources have also pointed out that alias' Camilo ', like several companions of the column 'Teofilo Forero', were part of the dissidence of the 'New Marquetalia'.

On Molares, some sectors of Argentina mention: “it is part of a left-wing advance in Latin America, supported by politicians, Argentine activists (who pose with candidates in Colombia) and even members of diplomacy,” while for other media outlets they highlight Facundo as a Latin American thinker.

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