2023-07-27 21:59:32
Bogota
More than 100 mayors of the country met with the Ombudsman, Carlos Camargo, and expressed their concerns and assured that they feel alone and at the mercy of illegal armed groups.
“There are 75 municipalities at high risk for the exercise of mayors. He mentioned some of them: those from Cartagena del Chairá (Caquetá) and Puerto Guzmán (Putumayo) were forced to dispatch from the capitals of the two departments. Or those from Santa Bárbara (Nariño), San Vicente del Caguan (Caquetá) and Puerto Asís (Putumayo), who are working under threats.”
The Ombudsman’s Office makes an urgent call to the Colombian State to make a common front, in order to stop the expansion and actions of illegal armed groups in the territories and seek protection for local leaders.
According to the Ombudsman, the armed group with the greatest presence and influence on the national territory is the Clan del Golfo, which commits crimes or interferes in 24 departments and 392 municipalities; mainly in the northwest and east of the country. In second place, the ELN, with a presence in 19 departments and 224 municipalities; specifically, in the entire corridor of the border with Venezuela, as well as in a good part of the Pacific.
The Farc dissidents led by ‘Iván Mordisco’ are present in 18 departments and 180 municipalities in the southwest of the country, the Amazon and some territories close to the border with Venezuela. Fourthly, the Farc dissidents called Segunda Marquetalia, a group that commits crimes in 14 departments and 69 municipalities; particularly, in the southwest of the country, although it has interference in Cundinamarca, Antioquia, Bolívar, Norte de Santander, La Guajira and Guainía.
Likewise, the presence and operation of transnational organized crime groups have been identified.
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