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She also had a message for the Colombian people: “It is important to do something for peace in Colombia, and that need to do something is precisely one of my motivations.”

After 24 years with the FARC, Karina said she wants to reintegrate with society. “At this moment, what I am thinking about is reuniting with my family and with all of society,” she said.

Karina the most wanted of the Farc
Karina the commandant of the front 47 of the Farc is accused to direct the guerrilla attack done last Saturday in San Marino (Choco) in lieu with men from the Eln and the Erg in which die 8 policemen and 20 more were captured for 24 hours. But who is this guerrilla that during the last 4 years calls the attention of the armed forces?
As per intelligence information Karina is a 40 years old woman and operates in the departments of Caldas, Antioquia and Risaralda. On his file exist six capture orders four of them in Bogota, one in Medellin and other in Cali, for the transgressions of homicide, terrorism, rebellion, kidnap and damages.

Karina began to be object of the analysis of the military forces after that in June 2002 command and participate on the incursion to the path Arboleda – Pensilvania (Caldas) where were assassinated 13 policemen and 4 civilians. Among them a woman that was burn because was the wife of one of the militaries as per the official report.

Since that moment the militaries began to elaborate her file and follow her actions and also found that during the time of the clearness zone in San Vicente del Caguan was on the launching (August 21, 2000) of the Movimiento Bolivariano por una Nueva Colombia, where participates guerrillas from the fronts IX, XLVII and Aurelio Rodriguez from the Farc. In the act and in accordance with the intelligence informs was order to control the municipalities governors on their respective influence areas, order that this woman is accomplishing.

But her action are not only limited to the mayor control, in September command the incursion to the military base of Cerro Montezuma, in Pueblo Rico (Risaralda), where die 13 militaries and 20 were wounded. That day was shot sown a phantom aircraft that gives support to the militaries.

Her promotions inside the Farc were quick, during the 2001 and the 2002 worked on many illegal blockages in the department of Caldas. Captured police agents that moved on the zone, burn vehicles and kidnap many doctors from the Neira local hospital.

Recent information from the police before the attack occurred last week, affirms that Karina was on the municipality of Nariño, Antioquia, where she was in company of 40 members of the front 47, dressing and carrying arms of private use of the public force, in activities of armed proselytism, and extortion.

Inside the investigation done by the authorities this week was concluded that no matter the guerrilla was not seen in the place of the actions, she commands the attack.

Camilo Ospina, defense minister, after the events remember the proposal done by the President Alvaro Uribe, in which offer $1,500 million for the information that permit the capture of this insurgent, due that Karina is one of the most wanted members of the Farc.
El Espectador, December 26, 2005

One of the top-ranking women leaders of Colombia’s Marxist FARC guerrillas, Nelly Avila Moreno alias Karina, has turned herself in after decades of eluding capture, officials said Monday.

Authorities say Karina, who led the 47th Front until her surrender Sunday in the town of Argelia, was considered one of the most violent female leaders of Latin America’s longest-running insurrection.

Avila, who is in her 40s, was allegedly behind four massacres carried out between 1994 and 1996 in the northwest Uraba region, as well as dozens of kidnappings and attacks on public officials.

She also may have been responsible for or involved in the 1983 murder of the father of current President Alvaro Uribe, officials said.

“She was known for her cruelty and daring, and for the massacres and beatings she ordered over 20 years with the guerrillas. So she was a very important military target,” Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said.

“She had become a legend, with the guts to carry out any action. Such people rise up rapidly through guerrilla ranks, and she had reached one of the most important posts of any woman in the organization,” he added.

President Uribe had urged Karina to surrender in exchange for security guarantees, and had made her capture one of his top priorities in the government’s fight four decade fight against the FARC.

Santos said Avila would benefit from the country’s formal demobilization program, adding she had come close to being captured several times during military operations during which she apparently lost an eye.

“We began to believe that she had nine lives like a cat,” said Santos, adding Avila had finally surrendered because “she was starving as she was surrounded and without food.”

She may have been linked to or behind the killing of Uribe’s father, the defense minister said, though he said he did not have evidence to prove it.

“That is a story that has been going around for a long time, and she may have done it or been one of those who did it, but I cannot say this far along whether it is the case. Let’s see what she says,” Santos added.

The FARC has denied involvement in the killing and arguing that the president’s father was a “known drug trafficker.”

Avila’s capture is another blow to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) which have also seen two top leaders killed by the Colombian military since early March.

Avila surrendered to Colombian intelligence service with her teenage daughter acting as a “guarantor,” officials said.

She was said to be behind an attack in Jurado in December 1999, in which 25 soldiers died and 12 were taken captive.

Then in December 2005 she allegedly led an attack on police in northwestern San Marino which left eight policemen dead and 30 captive. They were later later released, authorities said.
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