US EditionColombia’s President Confirms Release of 45 Soldiers Retained · Global Voices
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Bogotá. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, reported yesterday that the 45 soldiers held for almost 24 hours by a rural community in the south-west of the country, allegedly under pressure from an illegal armed group, were released.
“Every time the armed narcos use the civilian population more as shields for their businesses, they show more and more that they are weakening,” Petro wrote in his X account. President Gustavo Petro, said that the kidnapping of 45 military personnel in the department of Cauca, carried out by communities allegedly pressured by Farc’s dissents, is a demonstration of the weakness of that group of drug traffickers. “Every time the armed narcos use t…
President Gustavo Petro asserted that the Public Force will not "kill civilians" to free the 45 soldiers held hostage by the community of El Tambo, Cauca. "Every time armed drug traffickers increasingly use the civilian population as shields for their business, they increasingly demonstrate their weakness. Bombings and civilian harassment against soldiers will not be answered by killing civilians, but by liberating towns from the mafias. Liberat…
“Leave the soldiers free, they can be their children,” President Petro Agencia Period... Lun, 08/09/2025 - 06:11 The uniformed were kidnapped by the community, allegedly instrumentalized by the dissidences of the Farc.
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