Two weeks before the legislative elections, Colombia is experiencing an increase in the activity of the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the FARC dissidentsas well as the Clan del Golfo that attack social and demobilized leaders and keep the communities in fear.
The main objective of criminal groups has been the public forceespecially in the convulsive departments of Arauca and Norte de Santander, in the east of the country and both border with Venezuela, as well as in Cesar (north), and in the regions of northern Cauca and Bajo Cauca in Antioquia, in the west from Colombia.
Carlos Enrique Morenoa professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at the Javeriana University, assured Efe that with these attacks what the armed groups seek to show at the time of the elections is the strength they still have.
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They seek to show that a candidate at some point said that he was going to provide and return the security is not doing it (in reference to the campaign proposal of President Iván Duque). It is a show of force, not so much that they are strong (…) but that it has a connotation of demonstrating the incapacity of the authorities”, he declared. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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