Colombia: Military reinforces area in response to ELN armed strike affecting residents

At least 3,600 units of Colombian military forces reinforced surveillance in the northwest, where the ELN guerrillas declared an armed strike.

BOGOTÁ (AP) — At least 3,600 Colombian military units were reinforcing security Saturday in a northwestern region of the Andean country where the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group declared a strike the day before…

• According to the Office of the Ombudsman, some 32,000 people are at risk because of this decision.

The Colombian Navy maintains an active presence, especially in Chocó, in its areas of responsibility, in response to recent announcements by the Organized Armed Group (GAO, the "ELN"), that it is carrying out an armed strike in the region. On the Baudó River, in the municipality of Bajo Baudó, Chocó, the 22nd Marine Infantry Riverine Battalion of the Pacific Naval Force established a broad riverine operation, deploying three riverine units and t…

The entry 80,000 people confined by the new armed strike of the ELN in the Chocó was first published in Noticias Uno.

The General Command of the Military Forces announced that since this morning they deployed more than 3,600 uniforms to face the announcement of an armed strike by the ELN guerrilla in this department. The deployment is focused on the region of the Baudó River, the place where the Western War Front of that armed group announced the strike. “In the face of the badly called armed strike of the Organized Armed Group ELN, our Marine Soldiers and Avia…