Antioquia: Three trucks are burned in Puerto Valdivia - Medellín - Colombia

Moments of anxiety in the cargo transport sector in Antioquia. To the restrictions to mobilize in an environmental peak, violent attacks that have suffered on the roads of the department are added.

In less than 24 hours, on the way to the Caribbean Sea, jurisdiction of Puerto Valdivia, three trucks have been burnedaccording to Anderson Quiceno, spokesman for the Cargo Carriers Association (ATC).

According to the spokesperson, two vehicles were incinerated on the night of February 25 in the Paulina sector, and then another one on the morning of February 26, in Puerto Valdivia.

“That corridor has a complicated problem due to illegal gangs, we are waiting for official communications from the authorities to find out to whom the attacks are attributed. But we are very concerned about the situation, not only in Antioquia, but also in national level,” said Quiceno.

Although for now there is no official statement from the authorities, in recent days a pamphlet circulating in Bajo Cauca was known in which the Eln announces an armed strike in the area.

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Quiceno reported that drivers are out of dangerbut indicated that they denounced that people from the sector looted the contents of the cargo they were transporting.

This action left losses for more than 1,500 million pesos only in the burned vehicles, since the analysis has not yet been done by adding the value of the merchandise.

“The Army and the Police are doing what they can in the area, but we need the municipal mayor’s offices and the government of Antioquia to also join in to protect the transporters, who are very afraid of continuing to travel through the area,” he said. ATC spokesperson.

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The road in the Paulinas sector is temporarily closed by the authorities, which has some drivers dammed and afraid to travel, so they ask the controllers of the companies not to force them to travel if they express fear of moving through the road. zone.

According to ATC, on average daily 1,700 cargo operations through this corridor.

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Eln burned two more trucks in Pailitas (Cesar) - Other Cities - Colombia

The department of Cesar is at this time the region of the country most affected by the armed strike carried out by the Eln guerrillas.

The onslaught of the Eln subversive group once again affected Pailitas, south of Cesar.

On this occasion, two truck tracts that were traveling between the Palestina-El Burro road, Pailitas jurisdiction, were set on fire this Friday by the subversive group.

According to preliminary information from the authorities, armed men intimidated the drivers of these vehicles and forced them to get out of them.

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This is the second attack on vehicles
in this town carried out by the guerrillas

They then set the vehicles on fire and went around the town firing shots into the air.

“Some guys got out of a white van and stopped traffic. They then proceeded to set the vehicles on fire. Later, many shots were heard in the town”, explained Elexo Trigos, Secretary of the Municipal Government of Pailitas.

This is the second attack on vehicles in this town carried out by the guerrillas, since, yesterday afternoon, they incinerated two and three trucks loaded with vegetables that came from Ocaña (Norte de Santander) bound for Barranquilla.

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traffic is at a standstill

According to Trigos, the municipality is located from north to south and from east to west, by the subversive group.

“The situation is serious. We are caught in the middle of these attacks. We ask for reinforcement from the Army and the Police,” said an anguished Trigos.

Right now traffic is at a standstill. On the road there are more than a dozen trucks, private vehicles and some intermunicipal cars that were moving through this area.

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This route is part of the sections enabled after the explosion of the Trujillo Bridge, located in this same territory.

Activities in the area have been paralyzed and fear is growing among the inhabitants, since Pailitas has been the municipality hardest hit by the ELN attacks during the armed strike.

“The people of my town feel fear and anxiety. My family and myself too. Pailitas closed! ”, Carlos Toro, mayor of Pailitas, commented on his social networks.
The president calls on the ELN actors to cease their actions in this territory.

“We cry for peace and an end to the anxiety produced in this territory,” the official stressed desperately.

Faced with the risk of a new subversive offensive, a curfew has been decreed in this town, where four attacks by the guerrilla group have been registered so far.

Among the recent attacks, the detonation of an explosive charge that took place in a ‘box culvert’ stands out, a small bridge located in the middle of the road between La Floresta, rural area of ​​Pailitas and Pelaya, south of Cesar, which caused destruction to the section of these sectors.

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Iranian Statue of Slain Commander Soleimani Burned

A statue erected to honor slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani has been torched by unknown assailants hours after it was unveiled, Iranian media reported Thursday.

Soleimani, who headed the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was killed on January 3, 2020 in Iraq in a US drone strike at Baghdad airport along with his Iraqi lieutenant and others.

On Wednesday morning, a statue to honor him was unveiled in the southwestern Iranian city of Shahrekord.

But in the evening it was set on fire, ISNA news agency said, calling it a “shameful act by unknown individuals”.

“This treacherous crime was carried out in darkness, just like the other crime committed at night at Baghdad airport,” when Soleimani was killed, senior Muslim cleric Mohammad Ali Nekounam said in a statement carried by ISNA.

Iranian authorities have unveiled several sculptures dedicated to Soleimani since his assassination two years ago, and portraits of the revered commander dot the landscape across Iran.

State broadcaster IRIB condemned the latest attack as an “insulting” act, that comes as Iran marks the second anniversary of Soleimani’s killing, with several events in recent days.

On Thursday, thousands of Iranians also paid tribute to 250 “unknown martyrs” killed in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

Ceremonies were held across the country, AFP reporters and state media reported.

“We are always suffering from the loss of martyrs, like Hajj Qassem (Soleimani), because they all fought on the frontlines with their heart,” Ali Asghar, a mourner in Tehran, said.