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The uniformed men were attacked with explosives and shots. The authorities have not provided information on those responsible for the most serious aggression against the security forces since Petro came to power. This year more than 30 policemen have been assassinated throughout the country.
An ambush with explosives against a police patrol in a rural area of southwestern Colombia left seven uniformed personnel dead this Friday, authorities reported. Although at first the president Gustavo Petro reported in a tweet about eight deaths in the attack, the final balance of the police realizes seven fatalities.
According to the prosecution, the uniformed men were “ambushed” while traveling in an official vehicle to San Luis, a rural area located more than two hours away from Neiva, the capital of the department of Huila, where they had departed from. The authorities They have not provided information on those responsible for the most serious aggression against the security forces since Petro came to power.who took office at the beginning of August and has proposed to several armed groups a policy of “total peace” to defuse the conflict of almost six decades.
This year they have been killed more than 30 police throughout the country. The authorities have indicated a pistol plan behind these crimes, which target young police officers, patrolmen and women.
peace as a goal
The first left-wing president in the history of Colombia toprogress in the reactivation of the peace talks with the ELN guerrilla, interrupted in 2019 after an attack on a police school that left 22 dead in addition to the aggressor. He also proposed a “multilateral” ceasefire with the rebels who strayed from the peace pact that disarmed the FARC guerrillas in 2017 and the drug-trafficking armies.
Both the largest group of so-called dissidents and drug gangs grouped around the powerful Clan del Golfo have been open to participate in the dismissalwithout reaching an agreement with the government
“These events express a clear sabotage of total peace,” wrote the president on Twitter, who arrived in Neiva at night to meet with the police chief anticipating “urgent decisions.”
Defense Minister, Ivan Velasquezcalled on the armed forces to “respond forcefully to this attack on peace.”
For his part, the special representative of the UN Secretary General in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz, called for “continuing to insist on efforts around peace.”
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