“They are not revolutionaries, they are criminals”: Duque refers from Corinto, Cauca, to the car bomb and the video of Iván Márquez

President Iván Duque arrived this Saturday around 10:00 a.m. in Popayán, capital of the Cauca department to meet with the direction of the public forces, the Minister of Defense, Diego Molano and the Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios to assess the situation. attack. terrorist provoked this Friday in the building of the mayor of Corinto, two hours from the capital.

From the scene of the events where 14 civilians were injured, the president spoke by saying that they were attacking those responsible and expressed his support for the community. “Here we are present with the Ministers of Interior and Defense, with the military leadership, with the Governor of Cauca, with the mayor, Martha Cecilia Velasco and I want to say that these acts of terrorism are the expression of the coward. to seek anxiety and attack against the community ”.

He also reaffirmed that those responsible for these events are members of the column ‘Dagoberto Ramos‘FARC dissidents. “Those responsible are the bandits of the dissidents’ Dagoberto Ramos and we will continue to confront them wherever they are, because these acts against the community are unforgivable. There is only one way left for them: they either submit or we will confront them with force and they will be brought to justice or they will fall into military operations.s. We will no longer tolerate this against the community, ”said Duque.

The president referred to the video known this Friday by Iván Márquez in which he declared on March 26 “Day of the universal right of peoples to armed rebellion”, for the death of the former commander of the missing guerrilla, Manuel Marulanda, alias “Tirofijo”, who died 13 years ago. “Yesterday, we saw this tartarinesque video produced by FARC dissidents. They are doing this from Venezuela to intimidate the country. They are not revolutionaries at all, they are criminals, criminals, terrorists because in this country nothing justifies a homicide, kidnapping, recruitment of minors, they are criminals. They do not have the right to take up arms against the Colombian people“, said the president.

Duque dismissed the video saying that their arguments were not real and that one could not speak of revolution while they were “bandits” and added that they would end “this argument that they must have called themselves revolutionaries to justify this type of behavior. Those behind ‘Dagoberto Ramos’ are fed by drug trafficking and from here to Corinto I say, drug trafficking is the fuel for these groups and we must face it without hesitation, without reflection, which is why we are continuing our policy where we eradicate and we substitute ”.

“We will continue to destroy the labs, we will continue to seize them and we will confront them wherever they are.” This community has suffered greatly from violence and we are here to tell you that you are not alone. The enemies of peace are those who commit these acts, ”he concluded.

After learning of the explosion of a car bomb, this Friday at 3:30 p.m., in the town of Corinto, department of Cauca, the authorities gave birth to an extraordinary security council, in which the minister Defense alongside the army and police The forces have implemented a measure to protect the inhabitants of the affected area.

In terms of assignments, Molano said that the first census, carried out by the Ministry of Health, showed that the attack left 43 people affected, who were treated in different hospitals, “17 due to dizziness, 20 with minor injuries and there are 6 seriously injured, two of them are being treated in Cali and the other 4 have been transferred to Santander de Quilichao.” In addition, he reported that eight houses had been damaged.

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