Estado Mayor Central — De Facto Map

Estado Mayor Central — FARC dissidents · Colombia · Led by Iván Mordisco.

The Estado Mayor Central (EMC): FARC fighters who rejected the 2016 peace agreement, led by Néstor Gregorio Vera, "Iván Mordisco". It split when the fronts under Calarcá stayed in talks with the government and Mordisco's went back to war. In March 2026 it had 2,667 armed combatants and 1,252 people in its support networks: in Cauca, where most of its violence is, round the Micay canyon, in Valle del Cauca and Nariño, and in the Amazon along the Caquetá and Putumayo rivers, where in September 2026 Brazil's army reported FARC dissidents on its side of the border. At the end of May 2026 its fighters and Calarcá's clashed in rural San José del Guaviare; 48 bodies were recovered, eleven of them children the dissidents had recruited.