Archbishop Isaías Duarte Cancino / nullCNA Newsroom, Dec 2, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).The Criminal Chamber of the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice sentenced "in absentia" former FARC leader Luciano Marín Arango, alias Iván Márquez, to 25 years in prison as the orchestrator of the 2002 assassination of Archbishop Isaías Duarte Cancino.Márquez is at large and must be captured in order to serve the sentence.The prelate was archbishop of Cali when he was murdered on March 16, 2002, by two hitmen on a motorcycle as he left Good Shepherd parish after celebrating en masse the weddings of 105 couples. The hitmen were later found to have been paid by FARC s Joint Central Command of the West.Márquez was part of the Secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that had ordered the assassination of the prelate due to his constant statements against the guerrilla group.He was also part of the group that negotiated a peace accord with the government of President Ju
Right after taking office as president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro has announced his intention to try and negotiate peace with the country’s remaining armed groups and major organized crime cartels. But it is unclear what kind of transitional justice framework would apply and how it would compete, overload or duplicate the current transitional justice system born of the 2016 peace accords with the FARC guerrilla.
Briefing: Colombia’s new challenge to peace - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world
Newly elected Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who took office on August 7, is paving the way to restart peace talks in a bid to fulfill his promise to seek “total peace.”