Colombian President Gustavo Petro made an explosive claim on Saturday: Iván Mordisco, the country’s most-wanted guerrilla leader and chief of the FARC dissident faction, is bribing military officers who then tip him off before aerial bombardments. “He buys the commanders who should capture him; that’s how he escapes the bombings, but he leaves his own people to die. They warn him before every strike,” Petro wrote on social media. The accusation came after a military operation last week killed six of Mordisco’s closest collaborators in the southeastern department of Vaupés — though the leader himself apparently escaped.
