04:36 PM
This Sunday, around 3:00 in the afternoon, The father of Vice President Francia Márquez, Sigifredo Márquez, was the victim of an attack on the road that connects Tumba, Cauca, with the town of Robles, in the rural area of Jamundí.
He father of the vice president of the Republic was traveling in the company of a minor when they were attacked with gunshots.
In context: “Criminal groups have taken over Jamundí”: from Congress they ask for a strong hand and the presence of Petro in the Valley
According to preliminary versions, the vehicle in which Sigifredo Márquez and the minor were traveling was hit at least four times. After the attack, The vice president’s father and the minor were received at the Robles Police substation.
It is worth remembering that Since Saturday, the Government of Gustavo Petro launched the ‘security caravans’ strategywhich, with the presence of more than 100 uniformed members of the National Police and 100 soldiers of the Special Forces and the Infantry Battalion No. 8, seek to prevent new attacks such as those that have recently occurred.
On June 12, for example, A motorbike bomb was detonated in the center of Jamundí, leaving 6 injuredone of them seriously, the latter identified as Rafael González.
In the same attack, Mayor Alexander Meneses and patrolman Maira Alejandra Sinisterra were injured, both of them out of danger.
You may be interested in: The Attorney General’s Office requested protection for a youth counselor who, after rebuking Petro, received threats
The acts of violence in Jamundi, Valle del Cauca, and Cajibío and Caloto, in Cauca, which were presented this week, revealed the vulnerability and insecurity that the population experiences in the face of the growth of territorial control of the members of the Central General Staff of the dissidents of the FARC.
There is also talk of a weakening of the Public Force and the Military Forces that since The Government itself has insisted on denying it.
However, the Minister of Defense, Iván Velásquez would have left in the air the possibility that this is true, but not due to decisions of the current government of President Gustavo Petro, but from the previous Presidency.
And in an interview, the head of the Defense portfolio maintained that a decision in the administration of Iván Duque caused a weakening of the Public Force in Jamundí and southwestern Colombia in general.
Read here: “Criminal groups have taken over Jamundí”: Congress asks for a strong hand and the presence of Petro in the Valley
“An unfortunate decision made in the previous government of remove from the municipality the High Mountain Battalion that carried out important work in the region It was used by the dissidents to strengthen themselves,” said the minister in an interview with the newspaper El Tiempo.
