The car wherein the Vice President of Colombia usually travels, France Marquezwas shot when she was not there, on a street within the troubled division of Cauca (southwest), the place the senior official is from.
“I’ve been knowledgeable by my safety and safety staff that the primary car of the vice-presidential caravan, wherein I usually journey, was hit by a projectile, apparently from a rifle (…) which penetrated the inside of the car with out inflicting any accidents to the occupants,” Márquez stated in a press release on Wednesday.
The vp, who can also be head of the Equality and Fairness portfolio, stated that all the pieces occurred after leaving the municipality of Suárez, the place she was born, after making a go to with the outgoing Minister of Training, Aurora Vergarawhich would be the new headquarters of the College of Valle.
Francia Márquez requires “silencing the weapons”
The assault, he added, occurred “once I was already within the metropolis of Cali (capital of the division of Cauca’s Valley), attending to a different dedication.”
“This time now we have nothing to remorse, however I can’t assist however categorical my monumental concern for the Cauca and due to the fixed stress that my persons are experiencing day-after-day all through the area. We got here to convey the general public college to Suárez and we is not going to quit on this effort for the way forward for our individuals,” he added. Marquez.
Likewise, the excessive official requested the teams that function within the area, the place the actor that normally commits these assaults is the Central Normal Workers (EMC), the primary dissidence of the FARC“silence the weapons and permit Cauca to dwell in peace and permit the college to advance within the territory.”
Collection of assaults
Final month, Sigifredo Marquezthe vp’s father, was the goal of an analogous assault when he was touring with a six-year-old nephew of the senior official between the cities of bucketthe place at this time’s assault occurred, and the hamlet Roblesa rural space of Jamundí, within the neighboring division of Cauca’s Valley.
Likewise, in January 2023 Marquez reported the invention of a “machine with greater than 7 kilos of explosive materials” on the street resulting in his household residence in Suárez.
The departments of the Cauca y Cauca’s Valley have been the scene of terrorist actions by the Central Normal Workers in opposition to army and police installations for greater than two months. EFE
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