Ricardo Franco Front

The Ricardo Franco Command, the Ricardo Franco Front or the Commando Ricardo Franco was a Colombian guerrilla group led by José Fedor Rey a.k.a. Javier Delgado and Hernando Pizarro Leongómez. It began in 1983 when 200 hardliners split from the FARC.

Their base of operations was concentrated in southern Cauca in Colombia^{[citation needed]}.

It was the most violent guerrilla group in the country known for its massacres of the civilian population and by bloody battles with the FARC. It had an alliance with the 19th of April Movement, the commanders being brothers. Its most notorious act was when the leaders order the brutal torture and executions of 164 of their own followers under the suspicion of disloyalty.

The two leaders of the group were later assassinated by FARC.

References[]

• Osterling, J.P. (2020). Democracy in Colombia: Clientelistic Politics and Guerrilla Warfare. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-67539-9. Retrieved 2021-05-01.