The municipality experienced a nine-hour harassment on December 16 by FARC dissidents under the command of ‘Iván Mordisco’.
The Attorney General’s Office summoned an interinstitutional table “high level” for the next Tuesday December 23in Santander de Quilichaoin the north of Cauca, about twenty-nine kilometers from the beaten and mountainous municipality of Buenos Aires.
The meeting will host officials from different entities to prepare “an immediate and comprehensive action plan” that allows guaranteeing security, coexistence and dignified access to public services of the population of Buenos Aires, that the December 16 He lived a day of extreme violence.
For the Attorney General’s Office, the harassment that occurred that Tuesday—which surrounded nine hours to more than 30,000 people in the midst of attacks against Police station, the Mayor’s Office, the Agrarian Bank and the church– evidence “a worrying lack of control by the public force”.
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The detonations in Buenos Aires began around 6:00 in the morning on the third Tuesday of December. He front Jaime Martínezof the FARC dissidents under the command of ‘Iván Mordisco’launched several gas cylinders loaded with explosives to the main park of the municipality.
The crisis in Buenos Aires after the attack by dissidents
Minutes later, the armed men attacked the 17 police officers who guarded the urban area. The attack left two dead police officers and eight injuredwho remain under specialized medical care in the Lili Valley Foundationin Cali.
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One of the uniformed men remains in the intensive care unit. The others have been assessed in the services of emergencies, general surgery and orthopedicsamong other specialties, and continue under permanent interdisciplinary monitoring.
The mayor of Buenos Aires, Pablo César Peñatraveled to Bogota to request support from Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti. The municipal administration headquarters was destroyed and the national government announced an investment of 20,000 million pesos for its reconstruction.
Authorities seek to take action
“We have to figure it out. I am not sure where we are going to operate to provide the services that we usually provide.“, assured the local leader December 17while the authorities carried out controlled detonations of several explosives abandoned by the dissidents.
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The Attorney General’s Office committed to developing “specific actions to protect the right of the population to access energy services in a dignified manner”affected by the recent violent events, as explained by the delegate for Territorial Governance, Alexander López.
Meanwhile, the national government and the military dome advance this Saturday December 20 a Security Council in the Nariño House to analyze the public order situation not only in Cauca, but also in other regions such as the Ceasewhere the ELN attacked the Aguachica military base.
Four soldiers from Aguachica They remain in critical condition in Bogotá. The president Gustavo Petrowho described the day of violence in Cauca and Cesar as “scrubbed”leads the meeting together with Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchezand the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti.
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