Cali, Colombia. Colombian guerrillas detonated explosives on Monday as a military vehicle passed by in Cauca, near the headquarters of the COP16 on biodiversity, a region where the massacre of three civilians also occurred, authorities reported this day.
The rebels known as the Central General Staff (EMC) threatened those attending the largest United Nations summit on biodiversity, which is taking place in the city of Cali (southwest).
On Monday night, a few hours after the opening of the event, the guerrillas detonated “an explosive device as a military vehicle passed by the town of El Bordo,” about 150 kilometers from Cali, the Third Division of the Army reported in social network
“The explosive charge was detonated about 100 meters before the truck arrived. (…) Fortunately we have no injuries,” explained General Federico Mejía, army commander in the region, in an interview with Blu Radio.
In response, the army “reinforced” its “offensive” against the guerrillas who control coca crops in the department of Cauca.
On the same night three people were shot dead in the municipality of Suárez, also in Cauca and about 45 kilometers from Cali.
The victims “are two men and a woman from the same family who were traveling on the road that leads to the upper part of the town of La Betulia,” Cesar Cerón, mayor of Suárez, where the vice president of Colombia, France Márquez.
The massacre occurred in an area controlled by the “Jaime Martínez” unit, which is part of the EMC, a local police source told AFP.
Under the command of alias Iván Mordisco, the EMC is the largest splinter faction of the extinct FARC guerrilla still active, and constantly attacks public forces in southwestern Colombia.
These rebels were separated from the peace talks that the president, Gustavo Petro, is carrying out with the dissidents of the agreement that disarmed the FARC in 2017.
Some 23,000 people, including a dozen heads of state and a hundred ministers, were accredited to be at the busiest edition of the COP, which will take place until November 1 in Cali amid strong security measures.
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