Elda Neyis Mosquera García, alias Karina, and Nelson Antonio Patiño Cuartas, alias Zorro were agree to accept a plea bargain for the offense of forced disappearance, forced displacement and murder of a protected person. They were sentenced to 23 years and 11 months in prison and the payment of $2.656.25 legal minimum monthly wages by the same court.
According to the investigation carried out by the specialized 11° Prosecutor’s Office assigned to The National Unit against Disappearance and Forced Displacement Offences, the two guerrillas members participated in the displacement and subsequent killing of the peasant Ernesto Jesús Tabares Márquez, 75 years.
On July 2, 2003, the victim had to abandon his smallholding in Raudales rural settlement, in the municipality of Samaná (Caldas), in the company with his family due to FARC militia’s threats, which sought to recruit to his 22-year-old son.
A month later, the victim returned to gather their belongings, but the refusal of the young man to be member of the subversive group, Tabares Márquez was stopped again, retained, and shot him in the back in the presence of their relatives. Subsequently, the corpse was thrown to Samana River and his possessions were distributed among several members of the FARC.
Neftalí Franco Galvis, alias Neifer or Buche, alleged ringleader of the same guerrilla front militias that alias Karina belonged is also being investigated by these facts.
Apparently, Franco Galvis would be linked to the disappearance and killing of at least five other people, member of Tabares Márquez’s family.