Due to the terrorist attack that occurred in Tunja on November 8, different sectors have spoken out to reject the actions that the Ministry of Defense has taken to combat armed groups in the country.
That is why the Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez, in addition to providing an assessment of what was recorded in the capital of Boyacá, also spoke out to indicate that Armed groups such as the ELN (singled as responsible for the attack), the Clan del Golfo or the FARC dissidents are considered “terrorist organizations” that must be fought under that criterion..
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In dialogue with BluRadioSánchez indicated that, despite the statements in which they claim to be a guerrilla with political purposes, the actions of the ELN demonstrate the opposite.
“The ELN demonstrates once again what it is, a terrorist organization. They abandoned a dump truck with 24 cylinders in the vicinity of the Bolívar Battalion. Unfortunately, those charges were activated and fell inside the battalion.”
When speaking about the attack, he revealed that all the explosive devices were not detonated, but that this process continues to be carried out by uniformed personnel specialized in the subject.
“Some of them exploded, others remain active“The report I have is that they deactivated some, we avoided fatalities, only non-serious injuries.”
As immediate responses, he announced that a security council will be held in Tunja and another at the regional level between the commanders of the different units.
“As a result of this, We order two lines, the first at the regional level, a security meeting is going to be held to prevent more terrorist attacks. The second is an extraordinary council, where our leadership is already located.”
Pedro Sánchez reaffirmed that a million-dollar reward is offered to prevent terrorist attacks, without adding the payment of 100 million pesos that the person who reveals important information to arrest the people who abandoned the dump truck with the explosives in Tunja will receive.
“Hand in hand with the governor and the mayor we are going to review what happened and we are going to go after them. We offer a reward of 200 million pesos to prevent any terrorist attack in Colombia.”
The Minister of Defense reaffirmed that “the ELN, like the dissident cartel or the Gulf Clan, want to affect the Colombian people with terrorism”and pointed out that a strategy will be organized by region so that prevention mechanisms are more efficient.
“At the ministry level we have organized the territory by region, so that military and police commanders share alerts and take reactions. We are doing the work, the key to the operation is intelligence and information, we promote rewards. I expressed solidarity with the people of Boyacá and I tell the Colombian people that we have to be more together than ever.”, he pointed out.
After arriving in Tunja, the commander of the Military Forces, Admiral Francisco Cubides, shared a series of photographs on his
“I have ordered to increase operational force, under the leadership of commanders in the region, against ELN structures that commit crimes in the area; Its criminal leaders and commanders will be neutralized and brought to justice for the cowardly actions committed against the population and the public force.. Differential intelligence capabilities are already deployed to identify, locate and affect those responsible,” wrote the commander of the Military Forces in X.
