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This Friday, June 14, it was learned that three people were murdered with a firearm in the municipal seat of Mirandain the department of Cauca, by armed men who approached them and attacked them without saying a word.
According to Indepaz, This is the 29th massacre recorded in Colombia. In this way, 155 massacres that occurred during the Petro Government are completed, that is, since August 7, 2022, a massacre has been committed every four days, for a total of 517 victims of these events.
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“Two of the victims were identified as Johnny Gómez González and John Álvaro Sánchez, who, according to the community, were homeless people.; The identity of the third person has not yet been determined, however, local media indicate that she had recently arrived in the municipality,” the Indepaz report detailed.
This one remembered that The Ombudsman’s Office issued early warning 031 of 2023, in which it warns about the worsening of the armed conflict and violence in the south of Valle del Cauca and the north of Cauca.. This situation is due to the presence and territorial control of armed groups, as well as the arrival of new illegal structures that previously only passed through sporadically or distributed propaganda.
In this region of Cauca, there is a high presence of illegal armed groups that compete for territorial control and illicit activities such as mining and the production and export of cocaine. The north of Cauca is the scene of operations of the Dagoberto Ramos Front of the western bloc EMC, local gangsthe Adán Izquierdo company and possibly the 57th Front of the EMC dissidents.
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Last week, FARC dissidents of the Central General Staff (EMC) attacked a police station in El Carmelo, a rural area of Cauca. This week, the EMC, which is now divided into two groups after the split in the leadership of ‘Iván Mordisco’, intensified its attacks in Cauca with four coordinated actions which left a civilian and two police officers injured.
Besides, The Government suspended the ceasefire in three departments due to violence against indigenous people and the public force by the most belligerent group of the EMC, led by ‘Iván Mordisco’, who no longer participates in the dialogue table.
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