One of the regions that has been most marked by violence and the actions of armed groups is the department of Cauca. This place, in the southwest of the country, has had the constant presence of the ELN and the FARC dissidents, which violate the humanitarian rights of the inhabitants of the department.
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These criminal actions have forced the Military Forces to maintain a presence in the area, and on some occasions, to fight with blood and fire against the terrorists to safeguard stability in the Cauca territory. Indeed, it has been revealed a video on social networks showing the action of uniformed officers against dissidents of the FARC.
In the audiovisual record you can see the roar of the rifle shots and the terror produced in the community, apparently In the middle of the fight, some coca ‘raspachins’ would be seen fleeing the field in terror. of war that the dense vegetation of Cauca became. According to the complainant, the incident was specifically recorded in the municipality of Patía.
The impressive video soon captivated the public on social networks; precisely, X users commented on the video, which reflects the complex situation that exists in Cauca and surrounding areas, in addition to the territorial control that crime has in the territories where coca paste is produced.
“Those dissidents are the same drug traffickers who defend drug trafficking. The young people of coca raspachin, it’s not that they are meek pigeons (SIC)”, “Cauca is chaos and on top of that it has Nariño screwed (SIC)”, “That is normal in times of raspachin when groups come to dispute the territory for them to take over the coca (SIC).”
The term ‘raspachín’ refers to the person in charge of manually collecting coca leaves.. This work is one of the initial links in the cocaine production chain, a process that goes through several stages until reaching its final form as a psychoactive drug.
Rasachines usually work in extreme conditions, facing long work days in the middle of coca cultivation fields, generally located in rural and remote areas of the country, where the State has little presence and the control of illegal armed groups is frequent. His work is situated within the framework of illegal economies and, on many occasions, under the influence or coercion of these groups, which benefit economically from the drug trafficking business.
Although the activity of raspachines is crucial for the livelihood of many families in economically depressed regions, where employment alternatives are limited, it also represents one of the fundamental pieces of an illicit business that has fueled the Colombian conflict and generated violence, displacement and social and public health problems, both nationally and internationally.
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