Francisco Garnica Narváez (Palmira, 1940 - Cali, 15 December 1965) was a Colombian political activist and youth leader.[1]

Francisco Garnica Narváez
Born1940
Died(1965-12-15)December 15, 1965 (age 24/25)
Cause of deathAssassination
Known forActivism, Death
Political partyColombian Communist Party Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist-Leninist)
MovementColombian Communist Youth (JUCO)

Life

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Son of Francisco Garnica and Leonor Narváez, he was a leader and activist in left-wing youth pollical movements.[1]

Garnica was a regional Secretary for the Valle del Cauca branch of the Colombian Communist Youth (JUCO), the youth wing of the Colombian Communist Party, until he resigned in 1965 to join the newly created Communist Party of Colombia: Marxist - Leninist (PCC-ML). He was elected to its first Central Executive Committee.[1][2]

Execution

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On December 14th 1965 in Guacarí, Valle del Cauca, together with Carlos Alberto Morales and Ricardo Torres, he was arrested by the Colombian National Army and taken to the III Brigade in Cali, where they were tortured and executed. The executions took place at midnight on December 15, 1965.[1]

Tributes

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In his memory, varies fronts and sects of the Popular Liberation Army (EPL) and dissidents, such as Frente Francisco Garnica, took on his name.[3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "GARNICA NARVÁEZ, Francisco". Diccionario Biográfico de las Izquierdas Latinoamericanas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  2. ^ Agudelo, Mario; Panesso, Jaime Jaramillo (2005). Qué pasa en Cuba que Fidel no se afeita: de las armas a la esperanza : un diálogo con Jaime Jaramillo Panesso (in Spanish). ITM. ISBN 978-958-97510-7-7. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  3. ^ Pizarro, Eduardo (2017-04-06). Cambiar el futuro (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Colombia. ISBN 978-958-8931-81-4. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  4. ^ Herrera, Dario Villamizar (2017-09-12). Las guerrillas en Colombia: Una historia desde los orígenes hasta los confines [Guerrillas in Colombia: A Story from the Origins to the End] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Colombia. ISBN 978-958-8931-97-5. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  5. ^ Hernández, Claudia López (2016-04-01). ¡Adiós a las Farc! ¿Y ahora qué? [Goodbye farc! and now what?] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Colombia. ISBN 978-958-8931-39-5. Retrieved 2022-07-08.