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By Valentín DÌAZ BOGOTÁ, April 3, 2024 (AFP) – With promises of wealth and images glorifying fighters among vast fields of coca leaves, Colombia’s modern-day guerrillas are urging young people to join their ranks via TikTok. “The Jaime Martinez Front welcomes you, youngster,” reads one post by a faction of the EMC — rebels who broke away from the Marxist FARC guerrilla group when they signed a peace pact with the government in 2016. The […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — At least 23 people — four of them Venezuelans — were killed in fighting between rival rebel groups in Colombia’s border region with Venezuela, top Colombian officials said on Monday. Civilians were “likely” among the casualties from clashes between members of Colombia’s last recognized guerrilla group, the ELN, and dissidents of the FARC rebel movement, President Ivan Duque said. “We have found 23 dead” in a rural area of the northeastern […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — A Colombian governor claimed on Tuesday he had survived two armed attacks in the space of 24 hours in a region rife with dissident left-wing guerrillas. The first attack happened on Sunday when “the vehicle I was traveling in was hit by a sniper,” Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, governor of the central Meta department, told W Radio. On Monday afternoon “an explosive device” was detonated as a caravan of vehicles Zuluaga was […]
