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The UN warned of the serious situation of several communities in Nariño.

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AFP – EFE

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday of the displacement of 432 people from Afro-descendant communities in the Nariño Department, bordering on Ecuador

These people had to leave their homes because of clashes between dissidents of the former FARC guerrillas and drug gangs on the border between Colombia and Ecuador, said the UN.

Clashes took place on July 4 between the FARC dissident Oliver Sinisterra Front and the People of Order criminal gang in the municipality of Roberto Payán, Nariño Department, the Office of the Prosecutor United Nations. Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement.

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The fighting forced the forced displacement of 432 people from 131 black families from the rural area to the urban area of ​​the municipality of Roberto Payán and the nearby town of Olaya Herrera, Nariño with more narco-cultures of the world.

EL DATO
Colombia, the world's largest producer of cocaine, is also the second most displaced country, with 7.7 million people, behind Syria (12 million), according to the United Nations United for refugees. (HCR). "The number of people affected could increase when the census is consolidated," the agency said.

The two organizations contest the territorial control of the cocaine trafficking and production zone. According to OCHA, more than 200 children and a large number of displaced adults have basic needs of "food and nutritional security" and "basic sanitation". All are housed in a school and in the homes of relatives and friends of both municipalities, he added.

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The Oliver Sinisterra Front is led by Walter Arizala, aka "Guacho", a former FARC guerrilla detached from the peace agreement signed in late 2016 that disarmed and turned the party into a a communist guerrilla.

The "Guacho" group, accused by the Colombian authorities of being the armed wing of the Mexican cartel of Sinaloa, is accused of having murdered an Ecuadorian couple in captivity and the journalistic team of newspaper El Comercio de Quito.

The drama of the trip to Nariño does not stop; Despite the signing of the peace agreement, the presence of armed actors has again generated this phenomenon

Counter-offensive
° The Colombian and Ecuadorian authorities launched a fierce offensive against them at the following these crimes. Without a unified command, the rebels who broke with the pact of peace operate in remote areas of Colombia, where they dispute the rents of drug trafficking and illegal mining. They would total about 1,200 fighters. For its part, Gente del Orden is a criminal gang made up of right-wing paramilitaries who were demobilized in 2006.