Colombian government will start war against along border groups
2022.11.28 16:04
Colombian government will start war against along border groups
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – According to Interior Minister Alfonso Prada (OTC:), Colombia will launch a military offensive against illegal armed groups operating in border areas and is seeking the assistance of neighbors. on Monday, said.
The South American nation has been shaken by very nearly sixty years of struggle under the surface, leaving somewhere around 450,000 dead.
The first leftist president of the country, Gustavo Petro, who took office in August, recently resumed peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group in Venezuela while also attempting to put into action a 2016 peace agreement with the now-demobilized FARC guerrillas.
Drug traffickers and criminal gangs involved in cocaine production and trafficking could receive reduced prison sentences if they submit to justice, share details about trafficking routes, and turn over their fortunes under plans for total peace. Petro also hopes to end fighting with two dissident FARC factions who reject that peace deal.
According to Prada’s statement to journalists, “We have established contact with the countries on the border, because we noticed activity on the border that we are going to combat with our forces, as well as with the international collaboration of Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, and Panama.”
The point is to go up against criminal gatherings working universally with centers in different unlawful enterprises, which requires joint effort with different nations, Prada said.
Prada added that six 400-person platoons will be sent to the south of the country. At least 18 people were killed in recent fighting in the area between two FARC dissident factions over control of drug trafficking.
According to security sources, laboratories for the production of cocaine and extensive crops of coca, the main ingredient in cocaine, have been discovered along Colombia’s borders. They also said that the region is home to illegal armed groups that are involved in drug trafficking and have ties to Mexican cartels.
