72 hours of tension: the retention of soldiers in Guaviare

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72 hours of tension: the retention of soldiers in Guaviare

For three days, 98 soldiers from the Army's Omega Task Force were held by a peasant guard in Guaviare, in southern Colombia. The event generated another crisis in the negotiation processes between the national government and the dissent of the Central General Staff (EMC), which is present in the area. And, in addition, it showed a fracture within the Executive itself: while the Defense Minister said that it was a kidnapping and that the peasants…