Last Sunday, February 13, officials from the Regional Hospital of San Gil, Santander, informed the Police about the admission of a woman with polytrauma, several open wounds with a short sharp weapon and a blunt object in different parts of the body.
Investigators from the UBIC San Gil Criminal Investigation Section carried out field activities to learn about the event in detail.
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The investigators interviewed the victim’s partner, who “stated that he would have arrived at the house that morning, finding his wife lying on the floor, arguing that the events would have arisen from stealing it in his place of residence, but that only at dawn would he have noticed the injuries she had and that was when he decided that he should transfer her to the care center,” they said from the Police.
However, the investigations of the experts, “allowed to find and collect sufficient evidentiary elements, such as interviews, Judicial inspection of security cameras and sworn statement of a witness to the facts, managing to distort what was stated by the husband of the victim and establishing that this person was the intellectual and material author of the events”.
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The victim was guarded and watched by this subject, who also did not allow him to talk to anyone, arguing that they could hurt him.
For this reason, the victim during the five days he was hospitalized was always afraid to report the facts, confirmed from the Police.
The 27-year-old man was captured and charged with attempted femicide.
On January 19, a car bomb exploded a few meters from a building in the city of Saravena, in the Colombian municipality of Arauca, where some 60 community leaders had gathered.
The activists survived the bombing because hours before the attack, they had erected makeshift barricades with plastic barrels they filled with stones as FARC dissidents, with Antonio Medina at the helm, were attempting on assassinating them.
The attack claimed one life, Simeón Delgado, who was a security guard at the Colombian Agricultural Institute headquarters where the van exploded causing extensive damage to several buildings, including the Héctor Alirio Martínez building which is used by community-led organizations and was the target of the attack.
Despite the work of prevention of gender violence carried out by the Cali administration and different competent entities, women continue to receive daily mistreatment that negatively affects their mental and physical health.
The campaign brings a sorora hand, how friendship is defined, especially among women.
According to the Ministry of Defense, during the year there was a reduction in 75 percent in the cases of femicides registered in the capital of Valle del Cauca.
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For this reason, the mayor of Cali is reiterative with the accompaniment of women victims of gender-based violence, providing them with psychosocial and legal care, to overcome the different types of violence framed in Law 1257 of 2008.
The capital of Valle del Cauca is one of the regions where more cases of sexual violence are registered after Bogotá and Antioquia, according to the report of the Attorney General’s Office.
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This way, Maria Fernanda Penilla QuinteroSecretary of Social Welfare of Cali, made a call encouraging women to denounce any type of violence.
“The invitation is always to denounce, there is always a hand that can give them help and an authority that is willing to accompany them. Silence is an accomplice of the aggressors”, said Penilla Quintero.
“There is always a hand that can give them help and an authority that is willing to accompany them. Silence is an accomplice of the aggressors”
In November 2021, the Cali Metropolitan Police announced that to date there had been five violent deaths classified as femicides, two victims were minors. So it decreased a little in contrast to the year 2020, when the same number of cases were recorded during the same period.
Likewise, last year the Undersecretariat for Gender Equity attended to 856 victims of violence based on gender.
That is why the Undersecretariat daily promotes the prevention of different types of gender-based violence in diverse sectors and groups of the district.
“The administration continues with its efforts to achieve a society with gender equity and equal opportunities for citizens,” added Penilla.
To remind citizens, the official recommends seeking help through the different care routes who seek to help the victims.
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With 5,066,000 citizens eligible to vote, Antioquia has the greatest voting potential in the country.
This was confirmed by the National Registrar, Alexander Rocha, who assured that, in addition, for these elections toCongress and consultations on March 13there is another aspect that can affect the departmental public order.
“Antioquia has four districts of peace, which makes it a department with public order problems, but we trust that the Ágora Plan can reach these municipalities and that Antioquia vote calmly,” said the Registrar.
Said plan was presented during the installation of the Departmental Table for Electoral Guarantees on February 9 in Antioquia.
There, the Minister of the Interior, Diego Palacios, explained that said plan will be responsible for ensuring security in the territories, for which more than 100,000 men will be available in the country’s at-risk areas.
“In Antioquia we have prioritized 13 municipalities, in which we will work hand in hand with the Army and the National Police to guarantee the security of those territories. Likewise, we have made progress in ensuring that more than 60% of the candidates for peace seats have a protection scheme,” the Minister specified.
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In Antioquia we have prioritized 13 municipalities, in which we will work hand in hand with the Army and the National Police to guarantee the security of those territories
The prioritized municipalities in the department are: El Bagre, Tarazá, Valdivia, Anorí, Ituango, Cáceres, Caucasia, Nechí, Zaragoza, Remedios, Segovia, Murindó and Turbo.
Many of these municipalities coincide with those that both the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) and the Ombudsman’s Office warned are at extreme and high risk of violence.
The EOM report indicates that 40% of Antioquia is at some type of risk for this problem. That is to say, that of the 125 municipalities of the department, in 50 there is risk and, of these, 14 have an extreme level.
These are: Amalfi, Angostura, Anorí, Briceño, Cáceres, Frontino, Ituango, Murindó, Peque, Remedios, Segovia, Tarazá, Toledo and Valdivia.
“The EOM recommends that authorities make a presence through Electoral Monitoring Commissions, extended to lists and candidates in order to preventively address the situations in these municipalities,” the entity said.
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For its part, the Ombudsman’s Office released Alert 004 of 2022 on February 17, which warns of national risk scenarios in the framework of the electoral process, in which municipalities and non-municipalized areas have been identified in 32 departments with electoral risk mainly due to the incidence of illegal armed groups.
In the case of Antioquia, there are seven municipalities with extreme risk and 28 with high risk. In the first category are: Bello, Medellín, Cáceres, Caucasia, El Bagre, Tarazá and Murindó
This alert also warns about the possibility of carrying out armed stoppages, gun plans, threats, attacks on members of the public force, as well as against people involved in the election “expressions emanating from the social movement, political groups or citizens who are against of illegal armed groups in the territories; victim population in participation in the election of special constituencies, human rights defenders, public officials, ethnic peoples, new political expressions, former FARC combatants”.
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Antioquia was left with 1,200 more tables and 123 new voting positions
Given these and other eventualities that may arise, the Seventh Division of the National Army, which operates in Antioquia, reported that they are advancing in training military personnel in Foundations for Democracy.
“This as a complement to the importance of knowing roles, missions and responsibilities to fulfill in the next electoral days. In addition, a module on Command Responsibility was implemented, ”said the entity.
Despite the early warnings and the risk maps, the authorities expect the number of voters to increase for these elections, due to the changes in the ballot and the increase in the number of polling stations.
“We increased 14,000 polling stations in rural areas in the country, and Antioquia benefited from this, since it was left with 1,200 more tables and 123 new voting positionswhich means that there should be more presence of the State”, specified the National Registrar.
The Attorney General’s Office released a serious case of domestic violence involving Jhon Alexis Montoya Pino, a 31-year-old driver, in events that occurred in Envigado, Antioquia.
According to the complaint filed by the victim, on the night of November 22, 2021, she was in her home when she was woken up by a blow to the face by her sentimental partner, who allegedly le stated that she had just dreamed that she had a lover.
The man reportedly got out of bed and kicked the woman in the face, then went into the kitchen, pulled out a knife and he allegedly threatened to “sting” her.
Finally, the alleged aggressor returned to the bedroom, told the victim: “The blood is very scandalous”, and sent her to wash her face.
“The woman was woken up with a blow by her sentimental partner, who apparently made the claim for the dream of her alleged infidelity. The victim also received a kick in the face, whose injury generated a legal medical capacity of 40 days” , detailed Natalia Rendón, Medellín Sectional Director of the Prosecutor’s Office.
After the events, around 4 in the morning, the affected woman took advantage of the fact that the investigated person fell asleep to leave the building and seek refuge in another place.
Montoya Pino was captured on February 13 by the National Police and did not acquiesce to the charge charged. The Medellín Sectional Director of the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed this Thursday that the Prosecutor’s Office obtained an insurance measure in a prison for this man.
The Attorney General’s Office released a serious case of domestic violence involving Jhon Alexis Montoya Pino, a 31-year-old driver, in events that occurred in Envigado, Antioquia.
According to the complaint filed by the victim, on the night of November 22, 2021, she was in her home when she was woken up by a blow to the face by his sentimental partner, who supposedlye stated that she had just dreamed that she had a lover.
The man reportedly got out of bed and kicked the woman in the face, then went into the kitchen, pulled out a knife and he allegedly threatened to ‘sting’ her.
Finally, the alleged aggressor returned to the bedroom, told the victim: “the blood is very scandalous”, and sent her to wash her face.
“The woman was woken up with a blow by her sentimental partner, who apparently made the claim for the dream of her alleged infidelity. The victim also received a kick in the face, whose injury generated a legal medical capacity of 40 days” , detailed Natalia Rendón, Medellín Sectional Director of the Prosecutor’s Office.
After the events, around 4 in the morning, the affected woman took advantage of the fact that the investigated person fell asleep to leave the building and seek refuge in another place.
Montoya Pino was captured on February 13 by the National Police and did not acquiesce to the charge charged. The Medellín Sectional Director of the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed this Thursday that the Prosecutor’s Office obtained an insurance measure in a prison for this man.
With 5,066,000 citizens eligible to vote, Antioquia has the greatest voting potential in the country.
This was confirmed by the National Registrar, Alexander Rocha, who assured that, in addition, for these elections toCongress and consultations on March 13there is another aspect that can affect the departmental public order.
“Antioquia has four districts of peace, which makes it a department with public order problems, but we trust that the Ágora Plan can reach these municipalities and that Antioquia vote calmly,” said the Registrar.
Said plan was presented during the installation of the Departmental Table for Electoral Guarantees on February 9 in Antioquia.
There, the Minister of the Interior, Diego Palacios, explained that said plan will be responsible for ensuring security in the territories, for which more than 100,000 men will be available in the country’s at-risk areas.
“In Antioquia we have prioritized 13 municipalities, in which we will work hand in hand with the Army and the National Police to guarantee the security of those territories. Likewise, we have made progress in ensuring that more than 60% of the candidates for peace seats have a protection scheme,” the Minister specified.
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In Antioquia we have prioritized 13 municipalities, in which we will work hand in hand with the Army and the National Police to guarantee the security of those territories
The prioritized municipalities in the department are: El Bagre, Tarazá, Valdivia, Anorí, Ituango, Cáceres, Caucasia, Nechí, Zaragoza, Remedios, Segovia, Murindó and Turbo.
Many of these municipalities coincide with those that both the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) and the Ombudsman’s Office warned are at extreme and high risk of violence.
The EOM report indicates that 40% of Antioquia is at some type of risk for this problem. That is to say, that of the 125 municipalities of the department, in 50 there is risk and, of these, 14 have an extreme level.
These are: Amalfi, Angostura, Anorí, Briceño, Cáceres, Frontino, Ituango, Murindó, Peque, Remedios, Segovia, Tarazá, Toledo and Valdivia.
“The EOM recommends that authorities make a presence through Electoral Monitoring Commissions, extended to lists and candidates in order to preventively address the situations in these municipalities,” the entity said.
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For its part, the Ombudsman’s Office released Alert 004 of 2022 on February 17, which warns of national risk scenarios in the framework of the electoral process, in which municipalities and non-municipalized areas have been identified in 32 departments with electoral risk mainly due to the incidence of illegal armed groups.
In the case of Antioquia, there are seven municipalities with extreme risk and 28 with high risk. In the first category are: Bello, Medellín, Cáceres, Caucasia, El Bagre, Tarazá and Murindó
This alert also warns about the possibility of carrying out armed stoppages, gun plans, threats, attacks on members of the public force, as well as against people involved in the election “expressions emanating from the social movement, political groups or citizens who are against of illegal armed groups in the territories; victim population in participation in the election of special constituencies, human rights defenders, public officials, ethnic peoples, new political expressions, former FARC combatants”.
(Keep reading: Charge for circulation will be suspended from March 1 in Medellín)
Antioquia was left with 1,200 more tables and 123 new voting positions
Given these and other eventualities that may arise, the Seventh Division of the National Army, which operates in Antioquia, reported that they are advancing in training military personnel in Foundations for Democracy.
“This as a complement to the importance of knowing roles, missions and responsibilities to fulfill in the next electoral days. In addition, a module on Command Responsibility was implemented, ”said the entity.
Despite the early warnings and the risk maps, the authorities expect the number of voters to increase for these elections, due to the changes in the ballot and the increase in the number of polling stations.
“We increased 14,000 polling stations in rural areas in the country, and Antioquia benefited from this, since it was left with 1,200 more tables and 123 new voting positionswhich means that there should be more presence of the State”, specified the National Registrar.
BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Tuesday, February 15, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). The department of Arauca is experiencing an escalation of violence that has left more than 80 dead and 6 attacks with explosives, an x-ray of the worsening of the conflict in recent years in the country.
Is Arauca practically without God and without law? Yes, definitely yes.
This is what Luz Marina, an Araucanian, says says that they are practically in danger there. “I don’t know what security they are giving because the truth is that you don’t see any of that.”
Like her, today the more than 272,000 inhabitants of this region are panicked and live in fear of the war that the FARC and ELN dissidents are leading.
“Unfortunately we could say that the peasant is the most affected, since he has to live with the actors in the conflict,” said José Romano, a journalist for Tame.
In 2022 there are already 86 dead and more than 6 powerful charges have exploded. The Government has advanced two security councils in the area to seek solutions to the difficult situation.
“What is happening today in Arauca originates in Venezuela. In Colombia, with our Public Force, what we are going to do is act as has been done to protect the lives of the entire population of Arauca,” said Defense Minister Diego Molano.
Arauca has 7 municipalities, and to get from Arauca, its capital, by road to Tame, it takes at least 2 hours, but today it is practically impossible.
“Public order doesn’t allow it, it scares you because if you leave you don’t know if you’ll come back,” says Mary Hernández, a resident of Tame.
In municipalities such as Arauquita, Fortul, Saravena and Tame, few dare to speak out, including the more than 1,200 Venezuelans who have arrived in Arauca as displaced persons.
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This is one of the main conclusions of the first SEXVIOL report, which starts from the analysis of 178 sentences issued by the Provincial Court of Madrid between 2016 and 2018, sentences all of them associated with prosecution processes of assault with sexual violence.
But there are other myths or stereotypes, such as the nocturnal, the time or the area in which sexual assaults occur and that this report dismantles.
This is how he explains it to EFEsalud Esmeralda Ballesteros Doncelone of its authors and a member of SEXVIOL, a group made up of teachers and researchers from four Spanish public universities (UCM, U. de Jaén, UC3M and U. de Valencia) who collaborate in the study of sexual violence in Spain, from a comparative perspective.
Recorded Incident: Sexual violence is a crime that has not stopped increasing since official statistics were available in Spain.
In 1989, 5,770 complaints were registered and in 2018 its magnitude was estimated at 13,782, 80% corresponding to the most aggravated crimes (sexual assault and abuse), according to sources from the Interior Ministry: Report on crimes against freedom and sexual indemnity in Spain 2019.
Actual incidence:The propensity to report sexual violence is very low. It is estimated that of every 100 sexual assaults only 12 are reported, the rest are silenced.
The real rape myth: The social and media characterization of the attacks has been built around an unfounded myth that identifies the assault of an unknown aggressor, with a pathological profile, who attacks violently at night, in an isolated place and by surprise.
The victim defends himself tenaciously and, consequently, the aggression causes injuries, traumatisms or death.
Sexual violence: the bond with the victim
However, and according to the SEXVIOL group, the main findings of this research deny some myths:
Link.- In more than 80% of sexual assaults there was previously some kind of link between victim and perpetrator. In 17.4% the bond was intimate (partner or ex-partner).
Unknown perpetrators account for 19.1% of sexual assaults.
Place.- Homes are the place where most sexual assaults are committed (60.1%), followed by public spaces (20.2%).
Weapons.- The use of weapons only appears in 13.5% of the cases of sexual assault prosecuted.
extreme violence.- In 90% of the attacks extreme violence is not used.
In 4.6% of the sentences, the victims present serious or fatal injuries; more than half of the cases reported minor injuries (51.5%); In 31.5% of the cases, no lesions were identified.
Time of the day.-The time of day in which the sexual assaults occur is irrelevant: 45.2% took place during the day compared to 54.8% that occurred at night.
The myth of the herds.- Group sexual assaults represent 2.8% of the total sentences analysed.
The research by Cazorla (2021) on the analysis of 244 sentences with multiple perpetrators, handed down in Spain between 2005 and 2020, also clarifies that 63.5% of the group was a duo and 21.3% was a trio.
Sexual violence is gender violence.- 95.5% of the victims of sexual assault were women. 99.4% of perpetrators are men.
Sex offenders do not respond to an antisocial or pathological pattern.- 70.2% of the perpetrators did not have a criminal record of any kind. 1.7% of the defendants had a history of sexual assault.
PHOTO EFE/Quique Garcia
Sexual violence: victims need respect
The members of SEXVIOL consider that the victims of sexual violence do not need our pity, they demand our respect.
They defend that the dignity of the victims can only be restored “if we contribute to raising awareness, raising awareness, producing proven scientific knowledge… if we manage to illuminate the shadows in which the myths remain…”.
Also, if we work to “have resources to prosecute crime, if sufficient accompanying services, legal advice and specialized care are established to attend to the physical, psychological, social and affective-sexual damage that cause these aggressions against the freedom and autonomy of women, girls and boys.
In this sense, Emerald Ballesteros advocates expanding the expert assessment of the effect of aggression, “because there is a predominant biological culture that leads to pointing out the marks or signs that the aggressor leaves on the victim’s body, but there is no mention of the change of life that this type supposes of aggression for the victim.
“You don’t talk about your fear of living, your difficulty establishing affective relationships, your social self-isolation, your depressive periods… It’s about social and mental health damage that must begin to be collected.”
The sociologist and university professor also draws attention to the culture of silencing that prevails in society and that has done so much damage to the victims with close ties to the aggressor.
“That covering, covering and covering to also avoid the stigma towards the victims.”
Finally, he considers that there must be a design change in public policies, in light of some data, such as the link between victim and aggressor, and adds that “no one is free from suffering sexual violence and no one is expendable at work to its eradication”.
The group Sexviolenceits members explain, was born “under the influence of the bloody aggression known as the 2016 San Fermín case” .
«From this social questioning, different researchers, shaken by the news, weaved a small network of debates on the seriousness of the event, the development of the judicial process and its media resonance, adopting an activist commitment with a view to contributing to the scientific knowledge of the sexual violence in Spain.
Thus, this research group began a work project in 2017 with two objectives: to find out the statistical incidence of sexual assaults in Spain and to explore the characteristics of this form of crime through a content analysis of court rulings relating to this type of assault, while promoting seminars and initiatives aimed at young people and adults.
U.S. President Joe Biden Monday marked the fourth anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida by calling on the country to uphold the “solemn obligation” to end gun violence.
“On this difficult day, we mourn with the Parkland families whose lives were upended in an instant; who had to bury a piece of their soul deep in the earth,” Biden said in a statement. “We pray too for those still grappling with wounds both visible and invisible.”
On February 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people in the deadliest high school shooting to date. Fourteen of those killed were students, the others, educators. The gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was 19 years old at the time and a former student at the school.
Cruz pleaded guilty to the shootings last October. His sentencing trial is set to begin later this year. Jurors will decide whether he spends the rest of his life in prison or gets the death penalty.
The shooting stirred a movement, March for Our Lives, started by students advocating for stricter gun laws.
“Out of the heartbreak of Parkland a new generation of Americans all across the country marched for our lives and towards a better, safer America for us all,” Biden said, “Together, this extraordinary movement is making sure that the voices of victims and survivors and responsible gun owners are louder than the voices of gun manufacturers and the National Rifle Association.”
The NRA is America’s biggest gun rights lobby. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirms the right to bear arms. In the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, Florida, a Republican-led state, imposed a three-day waiting period to purchase firearms and raised the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21. The NRA argued the state law is unconstitutional.
Since the Parkland incident, school shootings have continued. Between Aug. 1 and Dec. 31, there were 136 instances of gunfire at schools, according to gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
Biden outlined steps that his administration is following to counteract this rise, including “curbing the proliferation of ‘ghost’ guns,” unregistered firearms that can be purchased without a background check.
He called on Congress to take action saying, “Congress must do much more — beginning with requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers.”
Multiple bills to scrutinize gun buyers and restrict purchases of the deadliest weapons have been put forward in the U.S. Congress over the last decade. None became law.
Most Democratic Party lawmakers back tighter gun regulations while most Republicans oppose them, citing the Second Amendment.
“The Organized Armed Groups have criminal income disputes on the other side of the border -in Apure-, with the collusion and support of the Bolivarian Military Forces to get them out of there and take away the criminal and drug trafficking business they have on the other side”.
This was stated by the Minister of National Defense, Diego Molano Aponte, who, accompanied by Diego Palacios, Minister of the Interior with delegated functions of the President of the Republic, the military and Police leadership and the regional commands, chaired a security council where they evaluated the commitments agreed by the National Government and focused on new actions to strengthen security.
The entry FARC and ELN dissidents are the ones generating a wave of violence in Arauca was first published in the RPTV News Agency.
US President Joe Biden traveled to New York City on Thursday to highlight a new push by his administration to combat gun violence and crime, including a crackdown on untraceable firearms, so-called ghost guns. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report.
U.S. President Joe Biden is traveling to New York Thursday to highlight a new push by his administration to combat gun crime.
The White House said the initiative includes efforts to crack down on the trafficking of firearms between states, such as ones that are sold in the southeastern part of the country and are later used in crimes in areas such as New York.
The Biden administration is also launching a program to better investigate and prosecute those who use homemade guns that lack serial numbers, also known as ghost guns.
Other areas of focus are prioritizing federal prosecutions of those who unlawfully sell a gun that is later used in a violent crime and having the Justice Department partner with local and state law enforcement agencies to work on identifying and addressing the specific factors driving crime in those areas.
During Thursday’s visit, Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland are to attend an interagency gun violence meeting with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York state Governor Kathy Hochul, and to speak with local leaders about community intervention efforts to help prevent crime.
Adams, who took office at the beginning of the year, has issued his own outline of programs to address gun violence, many focusing on similar issues such as gun trafficking and boosting youth employment and mental health services.
“We must do the work to end this epidemic of gun violence and deliver real peace and safety to our streets,” Adams tweeted Wednesday as he noted the shooting of an off-duty police officer in the city.
Two New York officers were killed in a shooting last month.
Some information for this report came from The Associated Press.
The week that ended left many concerns regarding public order in the country, ahead of the campaign for Congress and the Presidency of the Republic.
An indigenous leader was assassinated in the Cauca. They also killed a social leader in Arauca and a day later his wife in full wake. In Bonaventure, more than 700 families had to move to Cali due to threats from illegal groups. And, as if that were not enough, between Wednesday and Saturday there were 12 attacks in seven departments, which were, for the most part, against the Public Force, but they also attacked a United Nations entourage in Guaviare and the governor of Caquetá, Arnulfo Gasca.
(Also: With an attack on the governor of Caquetá, attacks continue during the campaign).
This escalation of violence, attributed to the FARC dissidents and the Eln guerrillas, took place in Cesar, Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Antioch, Guaviare, Norte de Santander and Caquetá. The events left at least 30 members of the Public Force injured, as well as two police officers and a military officer dead.
The last attack happened on Saturday, around 5:30 in the afternoon, when the FARC dissidents they activated an explosive device against a delegation in which the governor of Caquetá was traveling.
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They want to play a role in these elections, either to intimidate and to try to cause the next government to kneel before them
There, patrolmen William Echeverría and Miguel Bernal were killed, and five other uniformed officers were wounded. “It makes me sad that this has happened, that two policemen have been killed on my feet. The explosive act, there was not even a distance of 100 meters from where I came from, it could have been much more serious,” said the governor.
President Ivan Duke, who rejected the attack, assured yesterday that the country “will not bow to terrorism” and added: “We will continue to fight with determination” against “criminal structures.”
(In context: What is behind the attacks of the Eln and the dissidences to the Public Force).
Although these events are not directly related to the March and May elections, according to analysts, they are happening during the campaign, so the authorities, as well as candidates and political parties, are on high alert because they are undoubtedly a threat. for the elections and for Colombian democracy.
According to analysis of helpless and the Cerac, this escalation of violence last week occurs not necessarily because we are close to elections, but rather it goes with the dynamics of the conflict in our country and the war that illegal groups are sustaining, such as the Eln, the FARC dissidents and the ‘Gulf clan’.
And to that is added a union of dissidences under the command of a new secretariat, as published yesterday by EL TIEMPO.
(Keep reading: Social leader and his wife murdered in Arauca had no threats).
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Also, say intelligence reports, the The n It intends to show that it is militarily strengthened so that the next president can analyze a possible negotiation, since the current government has insisted that the doors are closed.
In fact, Duque stated last week that “they want to play a role in these elections, either to intimidate and to try to encourage the next government to kneel before them.”
Alexandra Barrios, director of the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM), points out that there is special concern because these acts of violence are taking place, mainly, in places where the peace seats will be disputed (see note below), key to the Cuba agreements.
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In Pailitas, Cesar, the tranquility of many inhabitants is altered after last week’s attack.
“The iconic example of what escalating violence means in this country is last week. If anyone has misunderstood or thinks it’s a catchphrase, last week shows exactly what that means. Later, let’s see what the impact is,” said Barrios.
Regarding the relationship with the electoral issue, the director maintains that it cannot be affirmed that there is a plan among all these groups to destabilize the campaign, but, in short, there is an impact and more anxiety is generated in the territories. He gives as an example that in Arauca and Cauca, practically, it is not possible to campaign.
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In the words of Leon Valencia, director of the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, it is also necessary to be alert to electoral violence in which candidates unite with illegal groups: “Actions of illegal forces are mixed against candidates in favor of or in collusion with their rivals, the protagonism of mafias and heirs of the paramilitaries at this point are growing. There have been 97 acts of violence in this field in recent months.
This is why both authorities and parties must be alert and guarantee the transparency of the elections and that citizens can exercise their right to vote without any pressure.
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Thousands of journalists from all the states of Mexico demonstrated Tuesday to demand justice for the recent murders of informants and the end of violence against the press in one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a reporter.
The national protest was in response to the most recent murder, that of journalist Lourdes Maldonado, shot next to her home in the city of Tijuana. She was under the Protection Program for Journalists in Baja California after a legal problem she had with former Governor Jaime Bonilla, of the ruling National Regeneration Movement.
She had attended the usual morning press conference of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in March 2019 for fear she could be killed.
The mobilizations took place in up to 47 cities throughout the country, filled with desperate cries in face of the incessant violence against journalists the country is experiencing and that has increased since the president’s arrival in office.
The demonstration in Mexico City was one of the largest, with hundreds of journalists protesting in unison in an unprecedented call in Mexico, and they did so in front of the building of the Interior Ministry.
According to data from Article 19, since the year 2000, 143 journalists have been murdered in the country, 28 of them during Lopez Obrador’s presidency.
Threats and constraint of the Gulf Clan, as well as manipulation of corrupt to the communities of Los Montes de Marìa (between the departments of Bolìvar and Sucre) are the risks that the Electoral Observation Mission, MOE, in this region of the Colombian Caribbean.
“The situation of constituency number 8 of Montes de María for these elections is really very complex. According to our analysis, there is a risk consolidated by factors of electoral fraud and violence. There are threats in four municipalities and three of them are at extreme risk,” says Rafael Martín Castillo Torres, delegate of the Electoral Observation Mission, MOE, for the region.
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The concentration of municipalities at risk for fraud and violence is worrying in Montes de María with a view to the next elections:
Among the municipalities in the magnifying glass of the MOE are Sheep, San Onofre, Colosó and Chalán (in Sucre) and Carmen de Bolivar (in Bolivar).
“The indicator of electoral fraud today becomes alarming and is linked to acts of violence. Seven of the municipalities of the Montes de las María constituency are at extreme risk”, adds the EOM delegate for this region of the Colombian Caribbean.
(In context: Elections 2022: early warnings from the Ombudsman on Montes de María)
Sources consulted by EL TIEMPO in the municipality of Ovejas give an account of the way in which the violent allies with corrupt clans are offering two million pesos for ‘the combo’ of the three votes in the elections to Senate and Presidency of the Republic.
“The concentration of municipalities at risk for fraud and violence is worrying in Montes de María with a view to the next elections: regarding the factors of violence, we have a concentrated presence of the Gulf Clan in the municipalities of Bolívar and Sucre, and disputes with local gangs,” says the MOE observer.
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At least 32 people were killed and 26 others injured in clashes between ethnic groups last Sunday in a region of South Sudan, the UN reported today, urging action to prevent an escalation of tribal violence in the country.
“Some 32 people from the Dinka Bor community were killed, including three women who were shot to death and three children who reportedly drowned in the river while fleeing, and at least 26 others were injured, including women and children,” he said. in a statement the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
