This municipality that It is under siege with rapid detonation explosives and others remotely, cameras that record the slightest movement and a strategic location with the civilian population as a human shield, it is almost a fortress that not even the public force can enter.
The Carlos Patiño front, former associates of Iván Mordisco, are the armed group that controls this territory of Cauca.
El Plateado is submerged between the imposing mountains of the Micay canyon and for several decades it has been an obligatory step to take the tons of drugs that are produced in the massif towards the Cauca Pacific.
The porous routes lead to ports such as Guapi, Timbiquí, López de Micay, which in turn connect with Tumaco to the south, if the destination is Ecuador, and Buenaventura to the north, if the route is directly to Central America.
The dissidents walk through the urban area of El Plateado, where approximately 8,000 people live, with their long weaponsThey even have a community service tent in the main park; Right there they have massacred several residents to show their evil.
“We are already used to living with the anxiety of who will be next”a professor from the area assured Semana magazine, who questioned him about the scale of murders that are never reported, but that everyone knows how and when they occur.
The violence in the municipality became stronger in 2020, when the Carlos Patiño front began a hunt in the township. They searched house by house and removed those they considered traitors for betting on the substitution of illicit crops and brutally murdered them.
According to official data, since the signing of the Peace Agreement In this area, 17 social leaders and ten signatories who did not want to return to violent dynamics have been murdered.
“Here they have killed people out of suspicion, and lately they (the dissidents) are paranoid, they feel that they are on their heels, so they attack the civilian population, They kill people in the main square and then take them to the mountains (…) And here is someone who complains to, if the law is themselves,” added the professor.
Given this, the director of the Police, General William Salamanca, acknowledged in a message that his uniformed officers could not enter this municipality because “There are no security guarantees.”
Likewise, General Federico Mejía assures that: “They placed about 4,000 minefields in the upper parts, because they are not going to allow anyone to reach them through the upper parts. The entrances to the urban area are monitored by security cameras.the three vehicle entrances are full of remote-controlled explosives.”
The FARC fort is also a concentration camp for the worst criminal practiceswhere no one can enter or leave without the permission of the FARC members of the Carlos Patiño front.
