Fighting against the military leaves at least 10 FARC dissidents dead

At least 10 FARC dissidents died in clashes with the Colombian Army in a rural area of ​​the municipality of Algeria, in the troubled department of Cauca (southwest), military sources reported this Thursday. The commander of the Army’s Third Division, General John Jairo Rojas, said that the men who died are part of a dissidence known as the “Carlos Patiño Front”, which operates in that region of southwestern Colombia.

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The officer explained that four platoons have been deployed in the area to prevent dissidents from clashing with the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN), as it could provoke attacks against the civilian population and cause “more homicides, insecurity in the area, displacement.” That is why troops were deployed to the village (village) Sinaí and to the township (town) El Plateado, both in Algeria, “with the aim of reinforcing” the Army there “and initiating in-depth operations in order to defeat them. structures dedicated to drug trafficking “.

In Cauca, drug traffickers, dissidents from the FARC and the ELN are present, who are fighting in various regions to dedicate it to illicit coca and marijuana crops, as well as illegal mining, in an area that is also a key corridor for the movement of illegal goods.