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Colombia’s Ministry of Defense have attributed Tuesday’s (27th) drone attack in El Plateado to the Carlos Patiño substructure of the Estado Mayor Central, FARC dissidents led by Iván Mordisco. The small town in central Cauca was terrorised by an improvised-explosives drone strike that killed one person and left 11+ more injured. According to the Colombian
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Residents of 10 villages in Antioquia, Colombia are confined to their homes by violence. Clashes yesterday between Clan del Golfo and FARC dissidents aligned with “Calarcá Córdoba” in Briceño, Antioquia, left the residents of 10 villages confined to their homes. Speaking with journalists, Briceño’s Secretary of Government said law enforcement struggled to enter the region
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Colombian National Police seized 2.2 tons of marijuana on the Panamericana highway between Pasto and the Rumichaca international bridge on the Ecuadorian border. Investigators concluded that the shipment originated in Piendamó, Cauca, and would pass through Ipiales before crossing into Ecuador. This seizure fits a pattern of gangs concealing massive shipments in single trucks with
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Yesterday, the Colombian Army raided 12 illegal mines in Chocó, Colombia, in the rural areas of Quibdó as part of a joint operation with environmental authorities and the local police. They destroyed five dredges, twenty water pumps, and thirteen engines valued at 275 million COP, according to El Tiempo. This comes five days after raiding,
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The Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) announced a 72-hour “armed strike” in response to President Donald Trump’s “neo-colonial” plan for South America. The group announced in a social media post that it will prohibit people from traveling on highways or navigable rivers starting tomorrow (Dec 14) until Wednesday morning (Dec 17). According to the statement,
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Early on Sunday morning, a group of FARC dissidents attacked a police substation in El Carmelo, southwest Cauca, a region critical for coca production and trafficking. According to General Carlos Fernando Tirana, they threw explosives at the substation, causing it to catch fire. Four police officers were injured, and one was killed. The same day,
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Last Thursday (11th), over 620 people arrived in the small town of Arenal, Bolívar, fleeing their displacement by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), according to local authorities. Arenal and the surrounding area are critical for illicit gold mining. At that time, Mayor Ramón Sayas told local media that “they forced people to evacuate their
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In the middle of the night on September 10th, two explosions went off in the Lomo de Indio neighborhood of Medellin. They were part of an attack, allegedly perpetrated by FARC dissidents, that destroyed at least one EPM power transmission tower. Mayor Federico Gutiérrez confirmed on social media that it was a terror attack. “Police
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The 33 soldiers who were “kidnapped” by villagers in the Amazon, acting on the orders of FARC dissidents, have now been released. Government representatives had travelled to the Nueva York area to negotiate directly with the community. On Monday, the soldiers conducted a military operation in the province of Guaviare in the Amazon in which
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The new director of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Terry Cole has accused Venezuela and the ELN of collaborating to export cocaine to the US. Speaking to Fox News he said: “ Venezuela has become a narco-terrorist state that continues to collaborate with the FARC and the Colombian ELN to send record quantities of cocaine