The alkaloid is valued at the sum of $55 million dollars.
Thanks to the investigative work and collection of information by units attached to the SIJIN Criminal Investigation Section of Sucre and in development of the Operation called ‘FALCON’, the coordinated and inter-institutional work between units of the Colombian Navy and the National Police allowed the seizure of 1,518 kilograms of high-purity export-type cocaine hydrochloride.
Using available land, sea and air resources, the troops of both forces carried out the operation in the sector known as ‘Boca de Tinajones’, jurisdiction of the municipality of San Bernando del Viento, Córdoba.
The cache was located exactly in the ‘Sicara’ district of that municipality, where an illegal deposit was used by a transnational criminal organization dedicated to the transport and sale of drugs to Central America and finally to the United States markets.
According to judicial police investigations, the drug would belong to the logistics and financial subsystem of the Organized Armed Group GAO Clan del Golfo, and it was established that said structure would be gathering the cache to be used in a shipment with drugs by boat modality. fast; 61 sacks of this illicit substance were presumably destined for North American countries.
This result was achieved thanks to the forcefulness of the public force that spares no effort to guarantee coexistence and security in this area of the Atlantic coast.
It should be noted that members of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Prosecutor’s Office applied the approved preliminary identification test – PIPH to the substance found inside the packages, which was positive for 1,518 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
During the operation, no captures were recorded, however, investigations continue to determine those allegedly responsible for guarding and marketing the alkaloid that would be valued at approximately $55 million dollars placed in US territory.
Our men and women will be distributed in the municipalities of Pereira, Dosquebradas and La Virginia.
Framed in the Comprehensive Transformation Process, different prevention, control and dissuasion activities will be carried out, in order to preserve the public order of the electoral elections.
The Metropolitan Police of Pereira complies with democracy and security, keeping in mind the commitment to guarantee the development of the legislative elections and inter-party consultations to be held on March 13, it has had the commitment of all the policemen and women that comprise it, in order to safeguard the integrity and coexistence of the election day.
To monitor public order in the Metropolitan area, the Police will install a unified command post, a place where security policies will be established to be implemented before, during and after these votes.
The police actions will allow the total coverage of the 120 voting stations arranged by the National Registry, located in the municipalities of Pereira, Dosquebradas and La Virginia, where the 1810 voting tables will be installed.
The security device for election day; More than 1,600 uniformed officers of different specialties will intervene, who will be distributed in urban and rural polling stations, registrars, counting sites, data processing center, digitization center and warehouse; in addition, uniformed men who will form reaction groups who will guard the different displacements and routes, in the delivery and collection of the voting kits, without any eventuality presented in the metropolitan area; equally men and women of the national model of community surveillance by quadrants, will be ready to guarantee safety and coexistence for the rest of the inhabitants while the day is taking place, exercising the different controls in compliance with the national decree and the municipal decrees issued for this day, carrying of firearms, dry law, prohibition of the circulation of cargo vehicles and the circulation of vehicles with advertising.
Finally, the Pereira Metropolitan Police, through the Pereira 99.1 police radio Facebook page, will be constantly posting first-hand information about the electoral elections, as well as any questions regarding the elections this coming March 13 , you can consult it at www.registraduria.gov.co or in the InfoVotantes Congress application.
We invite our community to promptly report any illicit activity to the cell phone number of the quadrant of their jurisdiction, toll-free line 123, or to the cell phone number 3194431269 (Police Intelligence Section), and/or to the emails sources.sipolmeper@gmail.com, meper.sijin-sepri@policia.gov.co, where police professionals will assist you, guaranteeing absolute confidentiality.
Although we are not going through a rainy season as such, In recent weeks, rainfall has increased considerably in some regions of the country and has caused several tragedies.
According to the records of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), between January 1 and February 28, there were 180 events related to rainfall, such as floods, landslides and flash floods.
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These events, which occurred in 119 municipalities in 20 departments, left 33 dead, 50 injured, 15,927 people affected, 26 houses destroyed and 2,692 houses damaged. The most affected departments in the balance of the UNGRD are Cauca, with 29 emergencies; Huila, with 18; Antioquia, with 17; Cundinamarca, with 16, and Tolima, with 11 situations.
Among the latest events that have occurred is the death of three people due to landslides in the Coffee Regionwhere several emergencies have been recorded in recent days.
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One of the deaths occurred in the Termales de San Vicente reserve, in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Cabal, in Risaralda. The tragedy was caused by the saturation of water on the ground, which produced the detachment of the root of a tree and affected two tourists near the El Embrujo trail, in the Termales de San Vicente reserve, causing the death of one of them.
The second recent emergency was in the Cocora Valley, in Salento, Quindío. Two tourists died there after a landslide.
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This region has been one of the hardest hit by the rains. In Pereira, 16 people were killed by a landslide on February 8.
And last week, in Manizales, a landslide also caused the death of three people.
Another event that happened recently took place in Antioquia, where heavy rains on Monday night caused the death of one person and three others were injured by a landslide.
On the other hand, four horses died due to the collapse of a wall, product of the strong downpour. This municipality, in addition, practically woke up flooded this Tuesday.
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The call of the risk management authorities to the mayors and governors, as well as to the community, is to activate emergency plans for disasters, taking into account that the first rainy season officially begins on March 15.
UNIPEP contributed and contributed to the construction of the Historical Memory Book “Aporte a la Verdad”.
Within the framework of the internal armed conflict, the presidency of the Republic of Colombia, through the Ministry of Defense, contributed to the construction of a plural and inclusive historical memory to the National Memory Center, which seeks to contribute to the processes of recognition of who have suffered the consequences of the violence in the country, among whom the members of the Public Force (Military Forces, the National Police), as well as their families, are recognized.
In this sense, the Police Unit for the Building of Peace – UNIPEP, contributed to the victims’ right to truth through the construction of the book “Contribution to the truth: Context of the Public Force for historical memory” as a Guarantor institution of Human Rights, through its constitutional mission to ensure the maintenance of peace and security conditions in the national territory.
In this way, inclusion is sought through the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition (SIVJRNR), and in judicial and extrajudicial mechanisms, contributing to the Historical Memory in the country.
Through a symbolic act, carried out on February 25 at the Military Museum located in the municipality of Tocancipá, the President of the Republic of Colombia delivered a document in Institutional Historical Memory to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace – JEP, the Truth Commission – CEV and the National Center for Historical Memory
Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, and Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who exposed what the company may have known about damage caused by its social media platforms, will sit with Jill Biden for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the White House said Tuesday.
Also sitting with the first lady are Patrick Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel Corp., and several people she met during the past year of traveling around the country on behalf of the Biden administration. They include a community college student-parent, a military spouse, a middle school student, a nurse, a member of a Native American tribe and a labor union member.
The guest list marks a big change from last year when Biden delivered a speech — not called a State of the Union address — to a joint session of Congress a few months after he took office in 2021.
The coronavirus pandemic was raging at the time and attendance for the annual presidential appearance in the House chamber in the U.S. Capitol was severely limited so that lawmakers, who were required to wear face coverings, could spread out and be socially distant.
Guests that lawmakers usually bring to the speech were barred last year because of the pandemic. The first lady attended alone, after having a virtual meeting with a group of guests.
But the COVID-19 situation has improved in the year since.
The federal government recently made mask-wearing optional in much of the U.S., including Washington, and congressional leaders invited all members of the House and Senate to attend, thought a negative COVID-19 test result was required.
Lawmakers were not allowed to bring guests this year, but that prohibition apparently did not extend to the first lady.
Jill Biden followed up on her public show of support for Ukraine on Monday — when she wore a white mask with a sunflower, the country’s national flower, to a public event at the White House — by inviting Markarova to sit with her for the nationally televised speech.
Tradition holds that the first lady invite guests who help personify policies and positions that are important to the administration. President Biden has rallied Western nations in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision last week to launch a war against its smaller neighbor, Ukraine.
Haugen has said Facebook’s systems amplify online hate and extremism and fail to protect young people from harmful content, and said the company lacks any incentive to fix the problems. Her revelations last year shed light on an internal crisis at the company that provides free services to 3 billion people.
Haugen backed up her claims with a series of disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission that were also provided to Congress in redacted form by her legal team. The redacted versions given to Congress were obtained by a consortium of news organizations, including The Associated Press.
Gelsinger joined President Biden at the White House in January to announce that his company would build a $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility near Columbus, Ohio. The plant will help the U.S. produce semiconductor chips that are in high demand and short supply, contributing to supply chain disruptions. The plant will also create thousands of jobs, Biden and Gelsinger said.
The president’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will also sit in the first lady’s box.
But at least a half-dozen lawmakers were not expected in the House chamber after they reported positive COVID-19 tests. They include Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., both members of the committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot, and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, cited a different reason for staying away from the speech.
“I’m just not taking any more COVID tests unless I’m sick,” he said.
They have argued viciously in Congress over just about everything: Whether the Capitol insurrection should be investigated or brushed aside. If the president’s choice for the Supreme Court should be the first Black woman. Even over whether or not to wear masks under the dome.
But as lawmakers gather for President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address amid the gravity of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they have mustered a rare and remarkable bipartisan resolve, determined to hold the U.S. and its allies together in the defense of a Western-oriented democracy.
When Biden stands in the House chamber Tuesday evening, trying to make good on what until now has been a faltering attempt to resolve the nation’s bitter divisions, he may find that the threat from Russian President Vladimir Putin abroad has become the unexpected force pulling the U.S. political parties toward common purpose.
“I think you will see in the State of the Union, a strong bipartisan support for our president,” predicts Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a Biden ally.
The turn of events is both stunning and fragile. Foreign policy has not been the kind of bipartisan draw it was during the past century, when Congress and the White House worked together as the U.S. dominated the global stage. Factions on the right and left have broken off, most definitively over the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, creating oddball political alliances in the U.S. and chiseling away at a shared mission.
The revival of a robust majority that’s largely supportive of Biden’s strategy toward Russia is even more striking because it is shaping up as one of the most significant rejections of Donald Trump’s embrace of Putin and the former president’s praise of Putin’s tactics as Russia invaded Ukraine.
“We’re all together at this point and we need to be together about what should be done,” said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Still, the State of the Union address may not be free of partisan antics, unfolding against the backdrop of a Congress deeply divided over many issues: a prime-time address to the nation, too tempting for lawmakers looking for attention.
This year is particularly fraught amid ongoing COVID restrictions and a Capitol still largely shuttered to the public in part because of the security concerns in the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters trying to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s election.
“It’s a big worry of mine,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who said he hoped his side of the aisle is respectful and doesn’t yell out “stupid” things.
Tuesday’s gathering in the House chamber will be the first time all members are invited since the pandemic outbreak in 2020 and last year’s Capitol attack.
Masks will no longer be required, removing one source of friction for those lawmakers who had flouted the guidelines and risked being booted from the session for failing to comply — though COVID tests and social distancing measures will still be required.
But the heavy metal security fence is back up around the Capitol complex, a bow to the “new normal” of threats from within America’s own electorate.
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen through a security fence put in place in preparation for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 27, 2022.
At least one Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, will sit it out rather than participate in what he calls COVID “theater,” even as he is deeply involved in monitoring the war in Ukraine. “I’m just not taking any more COVID tests unless I’m sick,” Rubio said Monday.
It can’t be said that Republicans are fully pleased with Biden’s handling of the Ukraine war.
McConnell has been highly critical of the president’s runup to the crisis, calling the White House’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan last summer a sign of U.S. weakness that opened the door to Putin’s invasion.
Leading Republican lawmakers have derided what defense hawks view as Biden’s initial reluctance to impose sanctions to deter Putin’s advance on Ukraine. Others have criticized the White House climate change agenda as creating an energy policy that boosts Russian exports, including via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany, now scrapped over the war.
“We all know what Putin wants, and he said so publicly: He wants to reconstitute the USSR and pull back in his orbit all the countries that were in it before,” said Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee. “This is a seminal moment.”
But even some of the Trump’s staunch supporters are parting ways with the former president after he called Putin’s invasion tactics “genius.”
Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, who rallied with Trump supporters ahead of last year’s assault on the Capitol and has won Trump’s endorsement in the Alabama Senate primary, lambasted Putin’s invasion as “barbaric and evil.”
But in a nod to the non-interventionist strain that runs deep in both left and right flanks, Brooks added, “While Putin’s Ukrainian invasion and murders are heinous, this is first and foremost a problem for Western Europe to resolve.”
Congress will face tests ahead, starting with Biden’s request for at least $6.4 billion in supplemental funding to help Ukraine, which will require cooperation from both parties.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said the Trump voices remain “a big part of the Republican Party nationally, but at least so far on Capitol Hill, especially in the Senate, I think you’ve got an overall bipartisan consensus. I hope it stays that way.”
