The Colombian Navy found and destroyed 1,014 antipersonal mines and other explosives in a rural area of the department of Putumayo, border with Peru and Ecuador, that supposedly belong to a dissent of the demobilized guerrillas of the FARC.
The commander of the Marine Infantry Brigade No. 3, Colonel Faiver Osorio Peña, He assured on Tuesday that the operation was carried out in the rural area of Mocoa, where In addition, 459 kilos of the Anfo explosive and 230 kilos of shrapnel were found.
“This material, it seems, would belong to the residual organized group ‘Structure 48 border commands’, which crimes in the region“The Navy added in a statement.
Border commands is a dissent of the second Marquetalia, under the command of Alias ’Iván Márquez’, which develops a peace process with the Colombian government.
Antipersonnel mines and explosives would allegedly be used by guerrillas against the civil population and state security forces.
FARC.
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Regarding the border commands, Andrés Rojas, aka ‘Spider’, one of his negotiators in the peace process, was arrested last February at the end of a cycle of conversations in Bogotá.
Rojas is a member of the National Coordinator Bolivarian Army, which brings together the border commands and the so -called Guerrillera del Pacífico coordinator, groups that followed the peace dialogues with the government after splitting from the second Marquetalia.
The guerrilla chief is required by a California court for charges related to drug trafficking activities and It is pending that the Colombian government authorizes or not its extradition.
EFE
