A new terrorist attack of gangs in Medellín this weekend, this time in the easter barrio of Manrique Santa Inés, Northeast Commune. Gangs attacked during the night of Friday some houses of the barrio. There were also disturbances in the 13th Commune’s Barrio Juan XIII, reported the Police of Medellín. Major Alonso Salazar said that it is the intention of the criminals to involve civilians in the conflict. The barrio was militarized by army and police and a man was killed in clashes. The man was identified as alias El Viejo (The Elder) and he was the chief of Los Balcones, a criminal terrorist gang heavy involved with mafia and murders. The criminal has been arrested several times, but he was always released without any prosecutions, although several evidences to prove his participation in terrorism and drug trafficking.
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The critics of Fidel Castro to the government of ex-president Álvaro Uribe where immediately answered by the Colombian politician. Castro, who has currently a high cover by the media of his country, criticized the decision of the UN to delegate Álvaro Uribe in the commission to investigate the Freedom Flotilla incident. The Cuban ex-president said that it is a ‘blunder‘ such election because Uribe ‘is accused of crimes of war‘ and that Ban Ki-moon was following ‘superior orders‘. Castro met recently Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, one of the main political opponents to Uribe.
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With a city discussion on the need to do or not a military take over of the 13th Commune of Medellín as it was in 2002, the security council that met this weekend in Plaza Mayor took some decisions to control the terror of the gang confrontations in the barrios. They contemplated the creation of a preventive center to study the factors of violence, the increase of police forces, a plan to vigil the streets of the barrios and the installation of security video cameras in the Commune.
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Authorities, politicians, journalists and many others are analyzing now in Colombia who could be behind the terrorist attack against Caracol Radio in Bogotá this week. Sadly, our country has many enemies, the enemies of democracy, freedom, moral and civilization. There is a general prudence in giving the responsibility to any suspect, though for some sources it could be likely the Farc guerrillas. The message is clear: the authors of this barbarian act want to impose their points of view at the dawn of this new government.
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Technically the positive transformation of Medellín is over and we are back to former violence by a real and bloody gang war. Sadly we have to recognize it and we must not under any circumstances ignore that the city is currently under a threat of permanent terrorism. Looking to the map of confrontation among gang criminals, the white areas are constricted to La Candelaria (downtown), El Estadio and El Poblado. The municipality reports 1,057 killings in 2010 and 2,395 persons who were displaced from their barrios due to terrorist attacks from gangsters, especially in the most marginalized areas.
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The morning of Thursday began in Bogotá with a terrorist attack against the main quarters of the Caracol Radio Station. Director Darío Arismendi, who was about to start his daily news at 5:30 said to the audience that a strong exploitation shook the whole building and created a great panic. The authorities released a video of the car used for the attack seconds before the exploitation with a female suspect in the place.
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The initiatives of peace of individuals or groups with the Colombian guerrillas that are not consulted with the government are not authorized, said Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera and he ordered the continuity of military operations against armed groups, according to Caracol Radio.
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Geneva — A UN report dated May 27, but made public today, says that ‘Colombia has made important security gains after decades of armed conflict and gross human rights violations, but serious problems with its security policies have undermined the very goals the Government seeks to achieve.’ The conclusions are of Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Reporter on extrajudicial executions.
The Colombian Ombudsman published the elections’ map of risk, meaning places that can be object of criminal acts and terrorist attacks in order to prevent the normal development of the presidential elections. 18 municipalities in 19 states were established as the most risky places for this weekend.
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Peru signed Free Trade Agreements with the United States and Canada and so did Colombia. Peru led the negotiations for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, while Colombia recently ratified the declaration.
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