ANDhe father of the Vice President of the Republic, Francia Márquez, suffered an attack on the road between Timba (Cauca) and the town of Robles, in the rural area of Jamundí. This last municipality is located in Valle del Cauca and is where attacks by FARC dissidents have been recorded.
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The event occurred at 3:00 pm on June 16. The vehicle in which Sigifredo Márquez Trujillo was traveling was reportedly hit four times.
According to the Police, “the vice president’s father was traveling in the company of a minor; both people are unharmed at the Robles – Jamundí Police substation.”
According to information from the authorities, Vice President Márquez’s father is in good condition, although scared by what happened on the afternoon of this Sunday celebration of Father’s Day.
The attack against Márquez’s father occurred one day after the ‘Security Caravans’ strategy was launched in Jamundí with more than a hundred police officers and soldiers from the Special Forces and the 8th Infantry Battalion ‘Battle of Pichincha’ ‘. The authorities announced operations to guarantee the safety of the population.
The ‘Jaime Martínez’ front has an impact in the area. This group was the author of the June 12 attacks with a motorcycle bomb in the heart of the urban area of Jamundí, leaving six injured, one of them seriously and who was identified as Rafael González. He is a motorcycle caretaker who also sells candy and is dedicated to recycling. He still remains critical for a week at the Fundación Valle del Lili clinic, in the south of Cali.
In that attack, two police officers were injured, chief mayor Alexánder Meneses and patrol officer Maira Alejandra Sinisterra, 25 years old. They are both out of danger.
The ‘Jaime Martínez’ dissident was also responsible for the harassment against the Police substation of the Potrerito district, on June 12. That day there were also attacks with explosions and shots in the Las Veraneras area and in the Cascarillal village.
The population has been left in the middle of an absurd war, as the mayor of Jamundí, Paola Castillo, has been reiterating, since in addition, the dissidents are taking children as young as 9 years old from the rural area of this town to recruit them, a situation that is also presents in the neighboring department of Cauca.
CAROLINA BOHÓRQUEZ
EL TIEMPO correspondent
Cali
