President Petro announces: "Where citizens attack the army there will be aerial fumigation"

The President Gustavo Petro sand pronounced in a energetic tone about the kidnapping of several military in the department of Cauca, perpetrated by a community that would be instrumentalized by illegal armed groups.

The president warned that there will be spraying with glyphosate in the territories of the country where the public force is attacking.

“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”He said.

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The proposal of the Head of State was backed by the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, who assured that it would be the way to counteract these criminal structures.

“What happens is that these organizations do, at the tip of blood and fire, that they mobilize between 2,000, 3,000 and, sometimes, many more civilian people who close to the public force, either to the police or the army. What do they want, to shoot against the civilian population? That would be a genocide, a barbaric thing. So, since these people are moved by these criminal structures, I would believe that the solution, as the president stated, is returning to spray with glyphosate and forced, ”he said.

The initiative, in the midst of the public order crisis in the country, and particularly in Cauca, has generated controversy, then Air fumigation of coca crops with glyphosate has been suspended since 2015 by court order and has been questioned about its effects on health, environment and rights of ethnic communities.

It is worth mentioning that President Petro reported that seven uniformed remain and demanded his immediate release.

“So far there are seven military kidnapped by civilians. They release them now,” wrote.