Dissidences installed threatening fence in Jamundí: Army dismantled it

Less than a week after the terrorist attacks that occurred in the municipality of Jamundí, department of Valle del Cauca, the Farc dissidents returned to demonstrate during this Christmas weekend. The authorities discovered an intimidating message, presumably signed by this criminal group, which was installed in the township of Robles. Army personnel had to dismantle the notice.

This Wednesday, December 21, in the Potrerito sector —rural area of ​​Jamundí—, a silver-colored Mazda Allegro car with QGW-052 license plates was detonated, which had been reported stolen last November; the entire outer right was destroyed in the explosion. Hours later, a grenade was detonated in this municipality.

These attacks were aimed at sabotaging the security operations carried out by the Military Police Battalion No. 3 of the Third Brigade. The authorities did not report injuries or deaths after these incidents, but the community was left in fear.

To top it off, the residents of Robles found an unpleasant Christmas present on the side of the road: a banner that reads "robbery, drug dealers, or extortion (sic) of small businesses in this area are not allowed."

After the attacks, the presence of uniformed officers increased in this neighboring municipality of Cali, the capital of Valle, and which borders the department of Cauca. A group of those uniformed men found the fence and destroyed it.

The mayor of Jamundí, Andrés Felipe Ramírez, shared the images of the clearing of this notice with a thank you to the public force: "They have been difficult days in the middle of the year-end festivities, but we have had the full support of @COL_EJERCITO and @PoliciaColombia to guarantee security in Jamundí. I want to thank you with all my heart on behalf of every citizen, ”wrote the president on his Twitter account.

General William Prieto, commander of the Third Brigade of the Army, assured in this regard: “precisely as part of the articulation of this device that is being made, we know of a growing threat that has spread these days, but we are here doing the task , without fear of going anywhere, doing the tasks that correspond to us”. Likewise, the commander invited the community to continue denouncing to recover the tranquility of the municipality.

It should be remembered that this Thursday, one day after the attacks, Ramírez called the national government's attention to the exclusion of the municipality from security discussions.

“The security of the Pacific cannot continue to be behind Jamundí's back. The bets that have been made during the last 20 years have not yielded results because the municipality of Jamundí has ​​never been prioritized. The pressure that is generated from Nariño, which falls on Cauca and then goes to the Naya corridor, towards the Pacific, towards Dagua and Buenaventura, to be distributed within the country and abroad, has been behind Jamundí's back." stressed the mayor.

Likewise, he mentioned that, despite being a municipality affected by the conflict, Jamundí is not included in the Development Program with a Territorial Focus (PDET), nor in the crop substitution initiatives. However, the municipality "is the recipient of all that violence and all that economy around drug trafficking." For the president, violence exceeds the borders of municipalities and departments and requires "joint, articulated and unison action."

For this reason, Ramírez called a meeting to discuss the issue with President Gustavo Petro, Vice President Francia Márquez; the governor of Valle, Clara Luz Roldán; the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, and the leaders of Dagua, Candelaria and Yumbo. He also called the high commissioner for peace, Danilo Rueda, and the mayors of Cauca municipalities such as Santander de Quilichao, Suárez, Buenos Aires, Villarrica and Puerto Tejada. However, his request has not been answered.

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The mayor of Jamundí, Andrés Felipe Ramírez, shared the images of the clearing of this notice with a thank you to the public force: "They have been difficult days in the middle of the year-end festivities, but we have had the full support of @COL_EJERCITO and @PoliciaColombia to guarantee security in Jamundí.