Top FARC dissident leader Ivan Marquez dead -sources

FILE PHOTO: Ivan Marquez of the political party of FARC speaks during a news conference in Bogota, Colombia April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga/File Photo

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Ivan Marquez, the well-known leader of a faction of former FARC rebels who returned to arms after a peace deal with Colombia's government, has died in Venezuela, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

Though most members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) demobilized under the 2016 deal, which ended the FARC's role in the country's nearly 60-year conflict, two major groups reject it and, according to security forces, have continued to participate in drug trafficking and illegal mining.