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The monopoly of cripa variety marijuana, access to several strategic drug trafficking enclaves, the influence over the port of Buenaventura and the abandonment of the State to rural areas, are some of the reasons why the FARC dissidents are so problematic. on the border of the departments of Cauca and Valle.
The terrorist escalation suffered by these regions (the third since the beginning of April) has as its protagonist the fPresents Jaime Martínez, Carlos Patiño and Dagoberto Ramos, of the Central General Staff (EMC)who are attacking the Public Force and the communities with bombs, tattoos, riots and rifle bursts.
Although the Military Forces have tried to stop their offensive, they have encountered an enemy that offers resistance with a large arsenal and manages to escape with impunity, mixing with the civilian population and camouflaging itself in the topography. What is the reason for the criminal power of the Cauca and Valle fronts?
Cauca and Valle are two of the most active departments in the drug trafficking chain, both cocaine and marijuana, which leaves lucrative income for these organizations.
In the north of Cauca, the largest extensions of cripa-type marijuana are concentrated, protected by the laws of indigenous autonomy that authorize each ethnic family to own at least two hectares with ancestral crops. The fields are in Corinto, Toribío, Miranda, Caloto and Santander de Quilichao.
The grass produced there feeds the vice squares of the main capitals Colombians, and is also exported to Brazil, Panama and the Antillean islands.
Besides, There are five strategic cocaine enclaves, That is, territories in which, according to the UN, the entire drug trafficking chain is concentrated: planting, production, internal transportation and export.
These enclaves are: Argelia – El Tambo (10,099 hectares of coca), Timba – Jamundí – Buenos Aires (1,436 hectares), El Naya (1,390 hectares), Policarpa – Patía (975 hectares) and Timbiquí – Saija (179 hectares).
Many drug routes, destined for the five continents, begin in the port of Buenaventura (Valle), and to access this illegal service Cocaine exporters must pay “taxes” to these guerrilla frontsboth for transportation through their territories and for the possibility of shipping them.
On this Wednesday morning, the mayor of Cali, Alejandro Eder, said that the EMC and especially the Jaime Martínez front, “has around 3,000 or 3,400 hectares of coca crops that would be producing 80 million dollars a year.”
For the Truth Commission, in the presentation of a short documentary titled “Why does the war persist in Cauca?”, the problem lies in the fact that “three factors are concentrated that cause violence and conflict to persist in this territory: the dispossession of land, illegal economies (drug trafficking) and alliances between different political and armed forces.”
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