A humanitarian crisis takes place in the south of the department of Bolívar, specifically in the municipality of Santa Rosa del Sur, affecting the corregimiento of La Marisosa and its neighboring areas.
The Secretary of Security of Bolívar, Manuel Berrio, in conversation with RCN Radio, issued a new urgent call to the National Government to intervene in this situation.
“We ask you to include the department in the Decree of Inner Communction (Catatumbo) and did not attend the call. We have asked you to turn their eyes towards our communities in southern Bolívar And they have not attended the call. They have left us alone without the tools To deal with this situation, ”he said.
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Berrio also referred to the Department of Weapons and Explosives Control of the Ministry of Defense CWatching the effectiveness of said controlarguing that armed structures in the area have significant armament.
“There is a written agency to the Ministry of Defense that has a lot of responsibility in what is happening and is the Department of Weapons and Explosives Control. Which weapons control? If these structures are armed to teeth. What explosive control? If in southern Bolivar he is blinded from antiperson mines and we carry three pump drones attacks in the departmental territory, ”he emphasized.
At the moment, the south of the department continues to face a serious public order situation that has mainly affected the residents of rural areas, in fact, on the morning of Tuesday, July 22, The social leader Luis Eduardo Bohórquez, leader in Santa Rosa del Sur, was kidnapped.
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Berrío reported that some citizens of the butterfly, (sidewalk that is part of the municipality mentioned) indicated that even armed men arrived even the Guamocó sector, armed men, armed men arrived, who apparently carried badges that identified them as the elnHowever, the Secretary of Security of the Department indicated that so far they have no information about the whereabouts of Bohórquez.
