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Colombia announced on Friday a military offensive against the guerrillas responsible for the attack of police officers near Medellín. For example, the bomb attack in Cali Thursday who killed 19, including civilians.

Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez went to Cali (southwest) on Friday where at least six civilians died. Moreover, more than 60 were injured by the explosion of a trapped truck near an air base. In addition, Without giving details, he announced the launch of an colombia announces military offensive against operation called “Sultana” to protect Colombia “against terrorism and crime”.

In the northwest of the country. near Medellín, the second city in the country, 13 police officers were killed Thursday during shooting and the launch of an explosive drone for a helicopter. They surrounded an eradication campaign for coca plants. The authorities attribute these crimes to two dissenting of the ex-FARC. in conflict between them, who rejected the peace agreement signed in 2016.

Minister Sanchez said that in the areas where these two armed groups operate. extortion, targeted assassinations and adolescent enrollment had decreased. This “led them to despair”. pushed them to “resort to the most criminal and insane weapon that could exist, that is to say terrorism,” he said.

«Mafia internationale»

“We face an international mafia. with armed colombia announces military offensive against bands here” in Colombia, said President Gustavo Petro after a meeting in the night with the High Command.

Colombia’s first left -wing president faced increasing criticism of his dialogue strategy with armed groups. rather than a frontal war.

The mayor of Cali recognized on Blu Radio “an intelligence failure which must be corrected”. On the attack on the attack. another truck loaded with explosives did not explode, otherwise “it would have been infinitely worse”.

The prosecution said that two people had been arrested in connection with this attack. One of them was “captured” by residents and struck, said Gustavo Petro.

«Sebastian»

Being known by the pseudonym “Sebastian”. the authorities designate him as a member of the Central General Staff (EMC) who had already colombia announces military offensive against claimed a series of attacks in June which had killed five civilians and two police officers in Cali and the surroundings.

Today. the guerrillas “seek to put the government at the foot of the wall and generate a climate of concern linked to the 2026 elections,” Laura Bonilla, assistant director of the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, told AFP.

Next May, Colombia will choose a successor to Gustavo Petro who cannot be represented under the Constitution. Under his mandate, the production of cocaine in Colombia has reached record levels, according to the UN.

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