The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, stated this Wednesday that the dissidents of the FARC act as a "private army of the Mexican cartels". He asserted that fighting them with public force is a matter of "national sovereignty".
The leftist leader stated on the X network that members of a guerrilla faction killed five soldiers in the Micay Canyon. The place is an enclave for cocaine production.
El presidente de Colombia Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Petro claims that those guerrillas are at the service of the Mexican mafia. More precisely, that they work for the Sinaloa Cartel.
"The destruction of the Carlos Patiño drug-trafficking column," formed by guerrillas who rejected the 2016 peace agreement with the FARC, "is today an order in pursuit of Colombia's sovereignty"
asserted Petro.
How did the attack happen?
The military were ambushed when they were heading to rebuild a bridge destroyed by the dissidents in that conflictive region of the country's southwest.
Last week in that area, coca-growing peasants were interrogated, "essentialized" by the guerrilla. The peasants claim that they held 29 soldiers and police officers from Thursday to Saturday.
The president stated that the mission of the government and the public force is "to take the middle and lower part of the canyon. In addition to asking the peasantry to stop supporting foreign forces that seek the destruction of the Colombian homeland."
Emblema de las FARC colombianas
References to Mexico in the area of the incident
During the release of the uniformed personnel, reporters saw references to Mexico in the clothing of some of its inhabitants. For example, caps with the flag of that country.
Also, commercial establishments with names like "Sinaloa" and parties enlivened with narcocorridos, Mexican songs that exalt the life of drug lords.
Petro had already pointed out that the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) is at the service of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Mercenarios colombianos han sido avistados en México
The drug route from Colombia
Emissaries of foreign illegal organizations buy the coca leaf from the peasants who plant it in Colombia. Then they seek to convert it into cocaine and take it out of the country with the help of local groups, according to the government.
The drug produced in the Micay Canyon then travels to Central America and the United States via the Pacific. It should be noted that the Sinaloa Cartel has a presence inColombia, according to the authorities of Mexico and Colombia.
