The Ombudsman of the town on Saturday an early alert due to the risk of the communities of seven of the 32 Colombian departments for the split of the central General Staff (EMC), the greatest dissent of the FARCwhich occurred last year.
“This early alert is issued by the serious risks for the civilian population derived from the expansion and/or armed confrontation between the groups dissidents of the extinct Farc under the command of alias ‘Calarcá Córdoba’ (General Staff of the fronts and the block) and those that are under the command of alias ‘Iván Bite’, “said the Ombudsman.
The document warns of risks to 45 municipalities Of the Southern departments of Putumayo, Caquetá, Huila, Amazonas, Meta, Guaviare and Cauca and even states that there are several areas where “the fracture has already begun to evidence in war confrontation and urgent prevention actions are required.”
(Further: They file a complaint against Mindefense, Iván Velásquez, for crisis in the Catatumbo).
He Government Colombian and the EMC began in 2023 a negotiation until the split of this armed group was confirmed due to the belligerence of some of its fronts especially in the department of Cauca. Néstor Gregorio Vera Fernández, aka ‘Iván Biteo’, who was the biggest EMC head and now is of his most belligerent faction, he faces the guerrillas led by Alexander Díaz, alias ‘Calarcá Córdoba’ since last August.
For that reason, the Government stopped negotiating with the dissidents of ‘Ivan Bite’, but still dialogues with those of ‘Calarcá Córdoba’, which are now known as the General Staff of the blocks (Emb). Precisely, the authorities They reported on January 20 that the clashes between the two features of the EMC in the municipality of Calamar, in Guaviare, left 20 dead and an indefinite number of injured.
(You can read: National Army launches offensive against the ELN in the Catatumbo).
This alert of the Ombudsman’s Office is issued at a time when the Catatumbo region, borders with Venezuela, is the scene of a bloody Confrontation of the Guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) with the 33rd Front of the FARC dissidents, on which that body had also alerted last November, without the authorities taking any measure.
