This Monday, the President Gustavo Petro He manifested after kidnapping of military in the department of Cauca, stating that “There will be aerial fumigation“In the areas where citizenship attack of strength of the Armed forces.
“Given the mafia tactic of opposing civil personnel to the army, the Constitutional Court must reconsider its sentence. Where citizens attack the army there will be aerial fumigation“said the head of state on his social networks.
(Further: Confirm the release of the 45 kidnapped military in the department of Cauca).
The president’s announcement was given after the kidnapping of 45 soldiers in the municipality of El Tambo (Cauda)occurred this Sunday in the framework of operation against drug trafficking and illicit crops.
This kidnapping adds to the happened last Wednesday, where two military were burned in Putumayo, after dismantling a cocaine laboratory. Likewise, two weeks ago, 30 uniformed in the department of Guaviare were also held after operations against the FARC dissent headed by aka ‘Iván Bite’.
Assonated in El Tambo (Cauca)
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In fact, last week the Military dome He had a meeting to reassess the military operations strategy of high conflict zones where citizens would be instrumentalized against the public force; And it is that so far from 2025, they go 33 assonates, of which 25 have occurred in the southwest of the country.
(Further: Petro said that kidnapping of 45 military demonstrates weakness of narco groups).
The Head of State, who has resisted aerial fumigation, trinated seven days that the United States announces whether or not Colombia desertifies in the fight against drug trafficking. In fact, the suspension of aerial fumigation has been questioned by Washington. Even, Donald Trumpin his first term, he called on then Colombian president Iván Duque To use all tools in the fight against drugs.
“You will have to fumigate. If they do not fumigate, it will not eliminate them. Then you have to fumigate“Trump said in March 2020.
Given the mafia tactics to oppose civil personnel to the army, the Constitutional Court must reconsider its sentence.
Where citizens attack the army there will be aerial fumigacion.
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) SEPTEMBER 8, 2025
This is not the first time that President Gustavo Petro is thrown back in socks that, he said repeatedly, they were “unnegociable“. At the beginning of his government, bombings to illegal structures were suspended, but with the escalation of violence, the president was forced to give the order that they return to military operations.
(You can read: Colombia warns that if the US withdraws the anti -drug certification ‘win’ the drug traffickers).
Air fumigations with glyphosate complete a decade suspended in the country, the same period of time in which Illicit crops went from their lowest record (less than 50,000 hectares) to the maximum coca area in history: 250,000 hectares in 2023according to sources consulted by the newspaper El Tiempo.
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