Cauca is experiencing a serious public order situation. Last Friday alone, three soldiers died and three others were injured in Army combat against FARC dissidents in the Algeria municipality.
The soldiers who lost their lives in these clashes were Jorge David Fuentes, Javier Sosa Ballesteros and Camilo Andrés Molina, whose bodies have already been recovered, but, according to the Army, “the members of this narcoterrorist group, in a cowardly manner, desecrated the bodies of the soldiers, insulting and disrespecting them.”
In dialogue with Mañanas Blu, with Camila ZuluagaGeneral Federico Mejía, commander of the Cauca Specific Command, pointed out that the interest of criminal organizations, Like the dissidents, in this part of Colombia it is related to the production of cocaine and the ease of going to the sea.
This is the Wall Street of illegal economies. El Plateado is Wall Street, it is the financial center of the illegal economies of the front that produces the most money derived from drug trafficking for ‘Iván Mordisco’
General Mejía highlighted.
In that sense, he added that in In that region of the country there is an entire logistics dedicated to the production of cocaine, which has led to several criminal structures being located there.
“We are facing this drug trafficking, drug traffickers; We are negotiating with drug traffickers, we are facing them. And worst of all, with all the power of money and everything that money can cause. So the fight is on all sides. As it is, that is the situation of why El Plateado for them becomes the hub of illegal economies,” he stated.
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