"Yes, I was the M-19 guerrillas for four years. After the disappearance of my sister Cristina del Pilar Guarin in the Palace of Justice, seeing the pain of my parents and the authorities rejected his desperate search, I felt insulted by the state and contacted a link to the M-19 National University, where I studied Systems Engineering. In early April 1986 at 22 years old, I agreed to be assistant special forces guerrilla group. "
With these words, Rene Guarin Cortes, advocate and spokesman for relatives of the disappeared in the holocaust of the Palace of Justice, acknowledged the information radial realized his past in the insurgent organization. But he said that this condition does not disable to continue searching for his sister, or justify the threats against his life, nor makes eleven people whose track was lost in November 1985 in more or less disappeared.
Speaking to The Spectator, Guarín admitted that after completing their first tasks of keeping weapons and documents in his home district of La Esmeralda, unbeknownst to his parents Joseph and Elsa, who were bent on knocking on doors unnecessarily officers to find the whereabouts of her daughter, participated in his first insurgent operation. A bank assault was followed by the theft of a vehicle. According to him, were two years supporting the Special Forces.
However, on Friday May 27, 1988 went to jail. "That day, a group of special forces seized the publisher Jorge Valencia Cafam Angel and near La Floresta was changed from vehicle. I drove the Suzuki jeep and when we went around town Facatativá appeared a police checkpoint. I tried to reverse the move and we went into a ditch. Then all hell broke shooting. A colleague was killed, the hostage was released and I captured a guerrilla. "
Although the statute was applied for the Defense of Democracy, was detained only until 29 December 1988 and was cleared by expiration of terms. Immediately, according to him, assumed he had no choice but to take to the mountain. In February 1989 he joined a front in the south of Santander and in the area remained until December of that year, when the M-19 was pardoned and moved to Santodomingo (Cauca) for demobilization.
"The alphabetical list was demobilized and I was included after Carlos Ramon Gonzalez and Vera Grabe. I lived in a House of Peace in Bucaramanga and returned to Bogota in 1992, the house of my parents, who never criticized me and I only put one condition: graduate engineer. I did it in 1993, two months after my father was notified by the Tribunal of Cundinamarca of the State had been condemned by the disappearance of my sister. "
A year later the Council of State upheld the decision. "For my father was not a victory, was hardly an incentive to continue his search. I kept mine. I got married, got my two sons, a graduate student, won a competitive position in Bancoldex and after February 19, 2001, when my father died, picked up his tradition of attending Mass every 6 November and march calling justice in the Plaza de Bolívar. Something told me to make an extra effort. "
In 2005, something strange happened. "The media revived the issue, society is sensitized and the prosecution reopened the case of the missing. In August 2006, when it was connected to the case, Colonel (r) Edilberto Sánchez Rubiano, I realized that my time had come. As did my father for 16 years, I decided I should seek justice. And that's what I do. I was a guerrilla, I will not deny. But I was demobilized in a peace process and have delivered. "
Last Thursday, after talking with W Radio and accept that the reports of journalist Claudia Morales about his past are true, René Guarín gathered his two sons, 14 and 12 years to tell his story. Begin by recalling that in 1985 his grandfather was a typographer and disciplined her younger sister and educator, Christine, for 36 days working in the Palace of Justice where the tragedy began. And then told them what the country now knows and he assumes: "I was a guerrilla, but that does not keep me from looking for my sister."
http://www.elespectador.com/impreso/judicial/articuloimpreso-220457-rene-guarin-si-fui-guerrillero
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