For two months, the departments of Cauca and Valle del Cauca have been the scene of terrorist actions by the Central General Staff (EMC) – dissidents of the extinct FARC guerrilla – against military and police facilities, which have left people dead and injured.
Three soldiers were injured in an attack with explosives by FARC dissidents in Jamundí, a municipality adjacent to the city of Cali, in Valle del Cauca.
“A situation related to improvised explosive devices triggered in two of our platoons arose.“said the Army in a statement about the attack that occurred in a rural area of Jamundí, on the afternoon of Sunday, June 23.
The explosion leftthree wounded soldiers who fortunately are not serious“added the information from the Army, which has reinforced security in the area, where for weeks they have faced an open war with the Central General Staff (EMC), the main dissident group of the FARC.
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For two months, the departments of Cauca and Valle del Cauca have been the scene of terrorist actions by the Central General Staff (EMC) – dissidents of the extinct FARC guerrilla – against military and police facilities, which have left people dead and injured.
Just last week the EMC, which is currently split into two groups previously commanded by ‘Iván Mordisco’, intensified the number of violent actions in Cauca that began with four coordinated attacks that left one civilian and two police officers injured.
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Likewise, Sigifredo Márquez, father of the Colombian vice president, Francia Márquez, was the target of an attack last Sunday when he was traveling with a six-year-old nephew of the high official, between the towns of Timba, in Cauca, and the Robles hamlet, a rural area of Jamundí, in the interior of Colombia.
