This Wednesday, July 5, The Colombian Army reported on the kidnapping of Sergeant Gihislaine Karina Ramírez Chitiva and her two minor children, one of them with a special condition since he suffers from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Through a statement, the institution targeted the ELN guerrilla group as the possible perpetrator of the kidnapping when they were traveling to the capital of the department of Arauca, in eastern Colombia.
But it was not the only violent event of the day. In the afternoon of this Wednesday, an explosive device was activated at the North Police Station in Bucaramanga. Five uniformed officers who were at the scene were injured and several vehicles and motorcycles belonging to the institution suffered damage.
This Tuesday the murder of three police officers in the department of Norte de Santander also made headlines. One of them was apparently attacked by a sniper in a township in the municipality of Tibú, while the other uniformed men were shot when they were sitting in an establishment in the municipality of El Zulia.
Videos of criminal gangs that have whipped the inhabitants of the port of Buenaventura, on the Colombian Pacific, have also become known in recent days.
While the authorities advance in the investigations, many residents of this important municipality in Valle del Cauca remain in their homes for fear of these criminal groups, among which are the Espartanos, the Shottas and the Company.
This is a panorama that worries Colombia, marked by displacement, attacks against public forces and the terror spread by common crime.
In a dialogue with the NTN24 program La Tarde, Fernando Posada, a columnist for the newspaper ‘El Tiempo’, pointed out that “it cannot be that when the country was beginning to celebrate that the ELN finally had a gesture of peace, we woke up today in Colombia with this terrible news (the kidnapping of the sergeant along with her two children)”.
Posada also added that “The Government has made many gestures of peace with the ELN, the High Commissioner for Peace has been quite undemanding in terms of the conditions that the ELN must meet to receive the benefits that the Government has offered them”.
“It doesn’t make sense for the ELN to finally announce a bilateral ceasefire after many delays, but for it to immediately respond that they are going to be able to kidnap, they are going to be able to carry out certain illegal actions, especially in some of the areas where the ELN is most affected. to citizenship”he added.
The analyst commented during his dialogue with La Tarde that it is in this situation that it is necessary to observe how the government is going to react and what actions it is going to take, “since it cannot remain in words every time the ELN attacks.”
“It could not be that the government simply responds that: ‘we urge the ELN so that this does not happen again’, here there must be actions, it cannot be that this simply continues to happen without any type of consequence.”he pointed out.
2023-07-05 22:59:14
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