They killed nine FARC dissidents | In an ope …

According to the Ministry of Defense, at least nine dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were killed during a large-scale military operation launched by the Colombian government in the south of the country. The incident occurred a day after the former leaders of this guerrilla group announced their intention to take up arms again.

The military operation, which included bombing and air raids, took place in a rural area of ​​San Vicente del Caguán, a former FARC stronghold. This attack was followed by a cataract of warnings from Colombian civilian and military authorities against groups who announced their return to arms, thus breaking the peace agreement reached in 2016 with which they sought to end the more than half a century of war. .

The Ministry of Defense confirmed the number of deaths left by this intervention and Colombian President Iván Duque then added on Twitter that one of the leaders of the group, identified by his pseudonym "Gildardo Cucho". "Last night, I authorized the Joint Special Operations Command to conduct an offensive operation against this group of narcoterrorist criminals who are remnants of what was known as the FARC and which are part of the criminal structures that now want to challenge Colombia, "he concluded.

Yesterday, a group of former FARC leaders led by Iván Márquez announced that he would return to arms and based his decision in violation of the Colombian government on various clauses of the peace agreement signed in 2016 in Havana. "This is the continuation of guerrilla warfare in response to state treason against the Havana Peace Agreement. It is the march of Colombia, humble, ignored and despised, towards justice, which splashes the hills of the future. This will be true peace, not betrayed, which displays its desire for popular aspirations against the perfidy of the institution, "said Márquez in the video published yesterday to explain his return to arms.

Today, General Luis Fernando Navarro, commander of the Colombian Armed Forces, told the newspaper The weather that Márquez and the other former guerrilla leaders who accompanied him in the video are in Venezuela and have the support of President Nicolás Maduro, in accordance with Duque's previous statements.

Faced with these accusations, the first vice-president of the ruling Socialist United Party in Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, said his government had nothing to do with the announcement of the FARC's dissident rulers. "Today, they blame us for Colombia, we deeply regret what is happening in Colombia, that it continues in the spiral of violence that is 60 years old and that has not started because of Venezuela ", did he declare. "What do we have to do with the Colombian conflict?" Nothing here, because of this conflict, we are receiving more than five million Colombian brothers living in Venezuela, "he concluded.