In it coliseum in the urban area of the municipality of Argelia (Cauca) remain more than 250 families that were displaced of the rural sector of this population in the southwest of the department.
The residents come from sectors like Las Perlaswhere fighting is still taking place between the National Army and the Carlos Patiño front of the FARC dissidents.
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These confrontations have already completed four days and, according to the social leader Carlos Pérezthey are more than ten thousand residents of the different towns who remain confined by the intensity of the confrontations.
Hence before the risk of remaining between machine gunfire and explosionsthe farmers chose to leave their paths towards the urban area, despite the risk involved in moving through areas that are ‘mined’.
“The number of displaced people may increase as the hours go by because many families remain confined in the territory, because what we are experiencing is the entry of various factions of the self-styled Central Staff or Carlos Patiño to the townships of El Plateado, El Sinaí, among others,” added the social leader.
Faced with this situation, the Secretary of Government of Cauca, Miller Hurtadoexpressed that they are helping to serve these residents while they wait for the public forces to regain control and are already in the Las Perlas sector, which is located just ten minutes from the urban area.
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“As a regional administration We work with other entities to serve these citizensprovide them with humanitarian accompaniment while they remain in the coliseum, while waiting for the public force to regain control of the area, after an Army unit will arrive after the fighting“added the official.
While this is happening, and as both social leaders and authorities express, tension increases over time because the presidency of dissidents of this front is numerous, a situation that occurs near the urban area.
