Luis Otero Cifuentes

Luis Otero Cifuentes (25 September 1943 – 7 November 1985) was a Colombian guerrilla terrorist. He was killed in the Palace of Justice siege in Bogotá.

Biography Cali-born Luis Otero Cifuentes studied in the Free University of Colombia School and Anthropology in the National University of Colombia. He became a member of the Communist Youth (in Spanish Juventud Comunista, JuCo) and fought in Cuba on the side of Fidel Castro in the Escambray. Otero Cifuentes planned the capture of the Dominican Republic embassy by a M-19 guerrilla squad in 1980, which lasted 61 days. In 1985, he was a leader of the assault on the Palace of Justice where he is believed to have been killed during the recapture of the building by the Army. His corpse was never found.