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The defeat of the FARC, and the capture or killing of its new commander-in-chief, alias “Timochenko,” will be extremely difficult without the active collaboration of Venezuela.

Both the rebel group’s commander-in-chief Rodrigo Londoño, alias “Timochenko,” and his second-in-command, Luciano Marin Arango, alias “Ivan Marquez,” often reside in Venezuela.

The two men are known to move in and out of the country; in Timochenko’s case from the Colombian province of Norte De Santander, and for Ivan Marquez, from La Guajira and Cesar. They are probably the last two commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who can hold together the rebel group, preventing its fragmentation and the criminalization of some sections which would likely result.

For three of the FARC’s seven fighting divisions or “blocs,” Venezuela is essential for logistics, weapons, munitions, medical support and as a rest and recuperation area.

Ivan Marquez’s Caribbean Bloc, with some 250 fighters, has