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.

MEDELLIN

Pick and plate for trucks and dump trucks in Medellin since February 28 - Medellin - Colombia

Due to the increase in contamination levels detected by the stations that monitor air quality in Medellin and its metropolitan area, the authorities chose to take action in this regard.

Since February 24, most stations of the Early Warning System (Siata) reported an orange ICA (Air Quality Index), which indicates a noxious air for sensitive groups.

Due to the fact that the weather conditions will continue in the coming days, and some stations may even register a red ICA, the Aburrá Valley Metropolitan Area (AMVA) declared the ‘prevention level’ established in the Operational Plan to Deal with Atmospheric Pollution Episodes (POECA) starting Monday, February 28.

This implies an environmental bill and plate in the 10 municipalities of the Aburrá Valley for cargo vehicles (trucks and dump trucks). to four digits in the schedules from 7 to 8:30 am and from 5:30 to 7 pm

However, for models less than or equal to 2009, the measure applies with the same plate numbers, but between the hours of 5:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 4:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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The restriction will be taking into account the last digit of the license plate, as follows:

– Monday: 6, 7, 8 and 9
– Tuesday: 0, 1, 2 and 3
– Wednesday: 4, 5, 6 and 7
– Thursday: 8, 9, 0 and 1
– Friday: 2, 3, 4 and 5

“We know that every month of February, March and April we have different weather conditions than the rest of the year, which leads us to attend to air quality episodes. In recent days we have seen an affectation in the air due to the arrival of a plume of smoke from forest fires in the rest of the country, that is why we declare the level of prevention that implies restrictions on cargo vehicles, which will allow us to reduce particulate matter by 10% in the territory“, explained the director of the AMVA, Juan David Palacio.

The entity clarified that there will be no additional restriction for motorcycles and private vehicles to the peak and plate that currently governs (two digits weekly).

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In addition to the environmental peak and plate, the AMVA reported that they will reinforce measures for industries, called fixed sources.

“Those that are not complying with the norm are suspended and, in addition, companies cannot carry out preventive maintenance of atmospheric emission control equipment,” Palacio said.

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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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Eln set fire to three trucks in Pailitas (Cesar) - Other Cities - Colombia

A new terrorist action was recorded in Cesar, within the framework of the armed strike announced by the subversive group Eln.

In the incident, three trucks loaded with vegetables from Ocaña (Norte de Santander), bound for Barranquilla, were burned.

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The event was recorded on the afternoon of this Thursday, on the path of the village of La Paz, jurisdiction of Pailitas (Cesar).

“As the Trujillo bridge is affected by the recent explosion that occurred last Wednesday, the drivers took a tertiary road in this village as an alternative. The section is a detour from the main road to go to other areas of the Atlantic coast” , explained Elexo Trigos, Secretary of Government of Pailitas.

The information handled by the authorities indicates that A guerrilla group made the drivers get out of the vehicle and proceeded to burn the trucks.

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“So far no injuries were reported. The municipality is in distress, therefore, we make a call to the authorities of the national order, public force that we reward our territory to protect our citizens in the best way”, said Carlos Toro, mayor of Pailitas.

In the same sense, he exhorted the armed actors of the law to cease their actions in this territory.

He recalled that this population is poor and this situation highly affects the economy of the region.

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It should be remembered that before the emergence of the Trujillo Bridge, El Burro, Tamalameque (south of Cesar) and El Banco (Magdalena) were established as alternate routes.

From these points, the vehicles can be mobilized to Cuatro Vientos, district of Chiriguaná (Center of Cesar) and continue the route to other cities of the Caribbean region.

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Special for Weather
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