The Prosecutor’s Office captured four alleged members of a drug trafficking network that would be involved in the departure of cocaine shipments on charter flights, which departed from the Rafael Núñez International Airport in Cartagena with destinations in Central America and the United States.
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These people are requested in extradition by a District Court of the South of New York, which requires them for charges related to drug trafficking. In this sense, they were located in procedures carried out in Barranquilla (Atlantic) and Santa Marta (Magdalena).
Two of those captured are members of the Police. They are patrolmen Jey James Roldán Cárdenas, assigned to the Department of Atlantic Policeat the station Tubaraand José Alfredo Aguas Oviedo, who reportedly took advantage of their positions and direct access to restricted areas of the air terminal to allow the passage of tulas and suitcases in which the narcotic was camouflaged, and evade the controls of the authorities and the anti-narcotics canines.
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The other two required are Oscar Gomez Romero and Mauricio Rene Garcia Quimbayo. These men would be the main articulators of the organization and those in charge of acquiring cocaine shipments at different points on the Caribbean coast.
The prolonged rainy have caused serious damage in several municipalities of the collidedwhere more than 3 thousand families affected by flash floods, landslides and floods.
The most affected municipalities are Medio San Juan, Condoto, Lloró and Río Iró, most of which are flooded.
As reported by the Risk Management Unit in Itsmina, one of the most affected areas, “As a result of the heavy rains in the municipal seat, there were landslides and floods in the different lower sectors such as the San Agustín neighborhood and commerce. There are about two thousand families. The mass movement took place in the Las Independencias neighborhood. In another sector, we are talking about six homes destroyed and four at high risk that cannot be mitigated. Negotiations for aid are being carried out.”
For his part, the mayor of the municipality of Unguía, Anuar Tapia, reported that they are going to declare an emergency in order to have resources to help the 1,100 affected families in the area.
“We are going to declare an emergency and request aid from the Risk Management Unit and the Government because in the last five months we have had five emergencies and in the municipality we are not able to deal with this emergency. The most affected families are those who live near the river,” the official told public opinion.
From the municipality of San Juan, Camilo Moreno reported with a video the situation that the community is experiencing due to the rising of a river.
So far, the authorities have not reported deaths in Chocó due to winter emergencies, but the economic losses are very high.
This weekend, in the department of Boyacá a new mining tragedy was presented that today mourns the country.
The municipality of Tasco today mourns 12 miners who were trapped after an explosion at the La Chapa coal mine, in the Hormezaque district of the municipality, which occurred around 5 pm on Saturday. In addition, there are three missing.
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These miners had started work at 11 in the morning and their working hours were supposed to end at 6 in the afternoon. The tragedy happened a few minutes before the end of his shift.
According to information from the National Mining Agency (ANM), the explosion, which was underground, was caused by an accumulation of methane and, possibly, coal dust.
Initially, on Saturday night, when the search and rescue efforts began, six dead and nine missing were reported.
(Also read: National rejection of Eln attacks committed during this week).
We deeply regret the death of the 10 miners in the accident that occurred at the ‘La Chapa’ mine, located in the municipality of Tasco, #boyaca. Search efforts continue to rescue the 5 people who are still trapped.
However, as the search progressed, it was eventually reported that 12 of the 15 people working at the site died. It was expected on Sunday night to continue with the rescues and, if it is the case, to do it this Monday.
The bodies were handed over to the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) to carry out the identification of the victims, and it is expected that during the day they will be handed over to their families to be buried.
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The families of the victims are being supported and receiving social accompaniment from the local authorities, as well as from members of the Red Cross.
The search efforts have been complex, according to the authorities, since there was a high concentration of methane and due to the explosion there was a risk that the infrastructure would collapse, so the work had to be very careful.
Regarding the mine, which is regulated, the license belongs to Acerías Paz del Río, but it was being exploited by a third party.
The tragedy occurred in Tasco, Boyacá. 15 miners were trapped.
The fact was lamented by both regional and national authorities. The Governor of Boyacá, Ramiro Barragán, assured, for his part, that he is “moved” by this tragedy and sent a message to the families of the 15 victims. “A lot of strength to the families who have lost their loved ones in this tragedy”.
This is not the first tragedy that has occurred so far this year, nor is it the first in Boyacá. In fact, it is the department hardest hit by these situationsaccording to official records.
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19 emergencies and 36 dead miners are recorded during 2022
According to the Ministry of Mines, During 2022 there have been 19 mining emergencies similar to the one that happened on Saturday in Tasco, of which 11 occurred in Boyacá and eight in other departments.
The balance of victims due to these situations amounts to 36 miners, of which 28 are from Boyacá. The figure grew considerably due to the events that occurred on Sunday afternoon.
A lot of strength to the families who have lost their loved ones in this tragedy
One of the latest tragedies of this type occurred on Friday, February 4, when an explosion inside a mine located in the municipality of Samacá, in Boyacá, left five people dead.
Figures from the National Mining Agency indicate that in 2021 there were 26 mining accidents in Boyacáwhich left 52 people dead.
These data show a decrease compared to 2020, when there were 56 incidents in mines, which caused 47 people to lose their lives.
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As for the balance at the national level, data from the same entity indicate that there were 153 incidents last year, which left a balance of 171 fatalities.
This was one of the highest figures of the last decade, since it is only surpassed by 2010, the year in which 84 accidents were recorded, but left 173 dead.
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The ravages of the heavy rains left a child dead and more than 20 houses affected by the downpours and landslides that occurred this Sunday in the town center of Valencia de la Paz, a rural region of the municipality of Iquira, Huila.
Jaime Toro, councilor of Iquira, affirmed that “a tragedy happened to us because we have a child buried by landslides and more than 20 houses with collateral damage due to rains.”
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“Water fell on us all Saturday night and early this Sunday,” added the councilman.
The deceased child was identified as José Mauricio Guaguas Barrios, 5 years old, a preschool student in Iquira, a municipality in western Huila located about 2 hours by car from Neiva.
Witnesses pointed out that a huge landslide fell on the house of the parents of the child “who slept in his bed, and died instantly.”
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“Everything was fast, nothing could be done by the minor’s parents to save him,” they said.
Added to the previous damage is the state of risk in which 80 families live in a settlement in the town center of Valencia de la Paz, where its inhabitants affirmed that “we expect help from the national government and the government of Huila.”
The rains also affected the Iquira aqueduct, as well as the roads in the villages of San Francisco, Río Iquira and Chaparro, which remain cut off from the urban area.
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The mayor of Iquira, Yadnolver Correa Tamayo, meets this Sunday with the emergency committee to study the declaration of public calamity due to winter wave.
This weekend, in the department of Boyacá a new mining tragedy was presented that today mourns the country.
The municipality of Tasco today mourns 12 miners who were trapped after an explosion at the La Chapa coal mine, in the Hormezaque district of the municipality, which occurred around 5 pm on Saturday. In addition, there are three missing.
(Also: Video: this was the massive robbery in an exclusive hotel in El Poblado, Medellín)
These miners had started work at 11 in the morning and their working hours were supposed to end at 6 in the afternoon. The tragedy happened a few minutes before the end of his shift.
According to information from the National Mining Agency (ANM), the explosion, which was underground, was caused by an accumulation of methane and, possibly, coal dust.
Initially, on Saturday night, when the search and rescue efforts began, six dead and nine missing were reported.
(Also read: National rejection of Eln attacks committed during this week)
We deeply regret the death of the 10 miners in the accident that occurred at the ‘La Chapa’ mine, located in the municipality of Tasco, #boyaca. Search efforts continue to rescue the 5 people who are still trapped.
However, as the search progressed, it was eventually reported that 12 of the 15 people working at the site died. It was expected on Sunday night to continue with the rescues and, if it is the case, to do it this Monday.
The bodies were handed over to the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) to carry out the identification of the victims, and it is expected that during the day they will be handed over to their families to be buried.
(You may be interested: Hundreds of Colombians went out to march against abortion)
The families of the victims are being supported and receiving social accompaniment from the local authorities, as well as from members of the Red Cross.
The search efforts have been complex, according to the authorities, since there was a high concentration of methane and due to the explosion there was a risk that the infrastructure would collapse, so the work had to be very careful.
Regarding the mine, which is regulated, the license belongs to Acerías Paz del Río, but it was being exploited by a third party.
The tragedy occurred in Tasco, Boyacá. 15 miners were trapped.
The fact was lamented by both regional and national authorities. The Governor of Boyacá, Ramiro Barragán, assured, for his part, that he is “moved” by this tragedy and sent a message to the families of the 15 victims. “A lot of strength to the families who have lost their loved ones in this tragedy.”
This is not the first tragedy that has occurred so far this year, nor is it the first in Boyacá. In fact, it is the department hardest hit by these situations, according to official records.
(In other news: The man who murdered Nickol Valentina is in prison for stealing his cell phone)
19 emergencies and 36 dead miners are recorded during 2022
According to the Ministry of Mines, During 2022 there have been 19 mining emergencies similar to the one that happened on Saturday in Tasco, of which 11 occurred in Boyacá and eight in other departments.
The balance of victims due to these situations amounts to 36 miners, of which 28 are from Boyacá. The figure grew considerably due to the events that occurred on Sunday afternoon.
A lot of strength to the families who have lost their loved ones in this tragedy
One of the latest tragedies of this type occurred on Friday, February 4, when an explosion inside a mine located in the municipality of Samacá, in Boyacá, left five people dead.
Figures from the National Mining Agency indicate that in 2021 there were 26 mining accidents in Boyacá, which left 52 people dead.
These data show a decrease compared to 2020, when there were 56 incidents in mines, which caused 47 people to lose their lives.
(Keep reading: The nightmare of the Iraqi family that arrived in Colombia deceived)
As for the balance at the national level, data from the same entity indicate that there were 153 incidents last year, which left a balance of 171 fatalities.
This was one of the highest figures of the last decade, since it is only surpassed by 2010, the year in which 84 accidents were recorded, but left 173 dead.
While Caleños must continue to wear face masks in outdoor spaces, because 70 percent of vaccinations with complete schemes have not been reached, In 17 municipalities of Valle del Cauca, its inhabitants will already be able to be on the street without masks.
These populations, according to information from the Ministry of Health, are: Obando, El Cairo, El Dovio, Ulloa, Versalles, Riofrío, Calima, El Águila, Trujillo, La Victoria, Argelia, Bolívar, Yotoco, Toro, Restrepo, Guacarí and Seville.
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The Secretary of Health of Cali, Miyerlandi Torres, pointed out that in this city the conditions required to withdraw the use of mandatory face masks in outdoor spaces are not yet met.
“We have 83.5% coverage of first doses and 67.5% with two doses, for which it is necessary to make an effort during these next few days with the different actors of the system and achieve 70% so that in this way we can leave the mask in outdoor places,” said Torres.
The official announced that they hope to reach 70% in five days, and for this they will vaccinate again in massive events, in the market places, the Transport Terminal and Pance.
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In addition, to be more effective, from next March 1, only five vaccination mega-centers will be maintained because there has been no evidence of relevant assistance to these places, so the task will focus on bringing biologicals to territories to strengthen immunization. . “The aim is to strengthen extramurality and be in the territories where the people who have been reluctant to vaccination are. For this reason, it is necessary to be on the street again”, he specified.
Torres explained that “the megacenters will be left for the population that continues to arrive sporadically and spontaneously, with the application of between 500 and 600 doses per day, for which it is pertinent to maintain them.
The 5 megacenters that will be open from March 1 are La 14 de Calima, Pascual Guerrero Stadium, Premier Limonar, La 14 de Pasoancho and CC Comercial Unicentro.
(Also read: Elections define the route of the economy in the Valley) Regarding ‘herd immunity’, the Secretary said that today it is not possible to measure it. “We hope to have an immune population, not only around vaccination as an acquired immunity, but because of the peak we had in January, we surely have a population with natural immunity. The best immunity is the combined one that is given by contagion and vaccination,” she stated.
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The Biden administration is urging Americans in Ukraine to leave within 24 to 48 hours, saying Russians could invade within days. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said a Russian invasion would likely include an assault on Kyiv. VOA’s Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports.
U.S. President Joe Biden cautioned American citizens about staying in Ukraine on Thursday, urging them to leave the country immediately and warning of a potential major conflict with Russia should a clash erupts between U.S. and Russian troops.
Speaking in a televised interview on the U.S.-based television network NBC News, Biden said “American citizens should leave, should leave now.”
“We’re dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. This is a very different situation, and things could go crazy quickly,” Biden said.
The U.S. president said he would not send troops to Ukraine, even to rescue Americans in case of a Russian invasion.
“That’s a world war. When Americans and Russians start shooting one another, we’re in a very different world,” he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking to reporters in Australia where he is meeting Friday with his counterparts from Australia, Japan and India, the so-called QUAD, reiterated Biden’s warning, saying Russia could invade Ukraine during the Beijing Winter Olympics, which end on Feb. 20.
“We’re in a window when an invasion could begin at any time and, to be clear, that includes during the Olympics,” Blinken said.
Russia opened 10 days of massive military drills in Belarus on Thursday and docked six of its ships at a strategic Black Sea port, drawing a sharp rebuke from Ukrainian officials, who characterized Moscow’s actions as further escalating tensions in the region.
The Russian maneuvers in Belarus involved thousands of troops and sophisticated weapons systems, such as S-400 surface-to-air missiles, Pantsir air defense systems and Su-35 fighter jets, with some of the training just 210 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the six ships arrived at the port of Sevastopol in Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. They had been on a 13,000-kilometer journey from the Baltic Sea to begin what officials described as naval exercises. The Russian landing ships are designed for unloading troops, vehicles and material onto land.
Officials in Moscow and Minsk have said Russian troops will withdraw from Belarus sometime after the drills end February 20. But Western officials remain fearful they could be deployed in a Russian invasion of Ukraine, a onetime Soviet republic, along with 100,000 troops Moscow has massed along Ukraine’s eastern flank.
Ukrainian officials, who launched their own drills on Thursday, assailed the impending naval drills, characterizing them as “destructive activity to destabilize the security situation.” Kyiv accused Russia of violating international law by restricting wide swaths of open waters to conduct missile and artillery fire training.
“These actions pose another threat to Ukraine’s sovereignty in its territorial sea area and in its sovereign rights in the exclusive maritime economic zone,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in a statement. “By blocking the recommended sea lanes, the Russian Federation has made it literally impossible to navigate in these areas and allow ships to enter Ukrainian seaports, especially in the Sea of Azov.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, in a call with reporters, denied that the drills would affect seagoing commercial operations.
Map: Russian troop locations near Ukraine
Peskov said Russia was staging the joint exercises with Belarus, its largest ever, to combat “unprecedented security threats … the nature and, perhaps, concentration of which are, unfortunately, much larger and much more dangerous than before.”
Russian officials have denied they plan to invade Ukraine, but diplomatic talks with Western officials have led to a standoff. Russia has demanded that the United States and its allies reject Ukraine’s bid for membership in NATO.
The West has rejected that as a non-starter but has said it is willing to negotiate with Moscow over missile deployment and troop exercises in Eastern European countries closest to Russia.
A day of talks between Ukraine and Russia ended Thursday without progress. These talks are an attempt to end the eight-year conflict between Ukraine forces and pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The failure to reconcile each side’s interpretations of the Minsk accords, a 2015 agreement that attempted to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, was seen as a setback to defusing the wider crisis.
“I hope that we will meet again very soon and continue these negotiations. Everyone is determined to achieve a result,” Ukraine envoy Andriy Yermak said, adding that both sides agreed to keep talking.
Britain on Thursday urged Russia to take a “diplomatic route that avoids conflict and bloodshed” while warning against any Russian moves that undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty.
“Fundamentally, a war in Ukraine would be disastrous for the Russian and Ukrainian people and for European security. And together, NATO has made it clear that any incursion into Ukraine would have massive consequences and carry severe costs,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said as she met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Western governments have been calling on Russia to take steps to de-escalate the crisis and vowed to impose swift and severe economic sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine.
Lavrov said Thursday that only “mutually respectful dialogue” can lead to normalized relations.
“Ideological approaches, ultimatums, threats — this is the road to nowhere,” Lavrov said.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled Thursday to Brussels to discuss the crisis with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg before heading for more meetings with leaders in Poland.
Johnson called the situation the “biggest security crisis that Europe has faced for decades” as he urged solidarity with NATO allies. He told reporters he does not think that Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet decided whether to invade Ukraine, but added, “Our intelligence remains grim.”
Stoltenberg told reporters he sent a letter to Lavrov inviting Russia for more rounds of meetings to “find a diplomatic way forward.”
“We are prepared to listen to Russia’s concerns and ready to discuss ways to uphold and strengthen the fundamental principles of European security that we all have signed up to,” Stoltenberg said.
He added, “Renewed Russian aggression will lead to more NATO presence, not less.”
Some information for this report came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters.
At a run, with belongings on their shoulders and escorted by the Police, this is how a family from the Enciso neighborhood of Medellin last Tuesday, February 8.
This, due to the fear of some retaliation on the part of a criminal armed group from the area, since one of the members of the family, apparently, refused to be part of said organization.
This was reported by the Attorney General’s Office, whose investigation carried out by a specialized prosecutor from the Medellín Section revealed that in the early hours of January 12, several members of the criminal group illegally held a member of this family for two hours and apparently, they required him to work with them.
Given his refusal, the alleged criminals would have threatened to attack him and his family.
“On February 2, the same men would have approached the victim’s father and demanded 5 million pesos as a fine because his son refused to collaborate with the organization. That day, he gave them part of the money. Faced with this situation and death threats, the family had to leave the neighborhood”, expressed Natalia Rendón, Sectional Director of Medellín.
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The family that was displaced had arrived in the neighborhood located in the east of the capital of Antioquia at the beginning of this year and they would have demanded $60,000 fortnightly to allow them to park their private car on public roads in the area.
Similarly, five men accused of belonging to said criminal organization were caught in flagrante delicto on February 4 when they were preparing to receive a package that pretended to contain the rest of the required amount.
The accusing entity obtained an insurance measure in a prison against these people, who were charged with the crimes of aggravated simple kidnapping, consummated aggravated extortion, attempted aggravated extortion, constraining to commit a crime and forced displacement.
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The processed they did not acquiesce to the charges. They are: Julián David Torres Henao, alias Pingüino; Michel Villada Alzate, alias Baby; Brayan Alexis Álzate Bedoya, alias Brayan; Keiner Matiz Vásquez, alias Keiner, and Andrés Felipe Tilano Borja.
BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Monday, February 7, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). For 18 days no boat has entered the municipality of El Charco, Nariño, as a result of the mobilization carried out by more than 5,000 peasants who ask the Army to end the stigmatization and withdraw from their villages because they fear falling in the middle of the crossfire in a possible confrontation with the FARC dissidents.
The more than 5,000 peasants from 85 villages in the rural area of the municipality of El Charco on the Pacific coast of Nariño, embarking up the Tapaje River to look for the military and ask them to leave the region because they can no longer stand the abuses of some members of the Public Force.
“The day of protest will continue until the Army leaves our territory,” says one of the peasants.
For its part, the trade turns 18 with the doors closed, the few merchandise and food that were in the barns and stores were sold out. The mayor (e) of this Nariño population expressed his concern.
“It is a hunger problem because we have already been closed for more than 13 days.”
The peasants, indigenous and Afro-descendant population continue with the open door of dialogue and insist that the Government left them to their own fate. For now, the time and date of the meeting between the entities of the national, departmental and municipal order have not been said.
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The music student Álvaro Herrera was illegally captured while participating in the ‘Symphonic Cacerolazo‘ during the strike in Cali.
The young man was detained by armed civilians and was assaulted in a CCommand of Immediate Attention (CAI) of Ciudad Jardín.
Journalist Wilson Morales also had to leave the city due to threats when he was singled out as a leftist or journalist. first line.
(Read in context: Music and state oblivion: the story of Álvaro, the young man beaten in Cali)
Álvaro Herrera, who specializes in playing the horn, was in the public act of the ‘Cacerolazo Sinfónico’ when civilians arrived and took him to the Police CAI on May 28, 2021.
When he was in those police facilities, the young man was forced to say that he was a hooligan. In June there was an act of reconciliation between the musician and the police.
The threats did not stop and in December there was an assassination attempt, of which the circumstances are reserved.
The exile was made known by Herrera, in virtual transmission, in the meeting ‘What did the national strike leave us in Cali? Young people dream of a different city’, which was held on Wednesday, February 2 by Colombia+20 and the German Embassy.
The Orange Movement lamented the exile of the musician and assured that this was due to those who, without any proof, were in charge of pointing out people who participated in the strike as vandals.
The assassination of Hernán Naranjo, peasant from Arauca. The assassination of Julio César Bravo, Councilor of Nariño, the exile of Álvaro Herrera, a young musician from Cali, only proves that the war continues to be allowed and the Gob e @IvanDuque Through their policy of death, they are accomplices!
The emeritus professor of the National University and Nobel Peace Prize 2016, Gonzalo Sánchez, who was director of the National Center for Historical Memorywarned that “being young, putting music to the protest, and being tortured as a supposed “vandal” in police facilities, becomes a deadly signal. The State is responsible for his life and the costs of exile.”
Councilor Ana Erazo wrote: “Yesterday we spoke in a conversation about impunity and the violation of human rights in the framework of the strike and today we woke up with this news. Álvaro Herrera, the musician detained and tortured in Cali, leaves the country due to lack of guarantees for his life”.
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