By Luis Jaime Acosta
BOGOTA – Colombia’s nationwide police stated on Monday they confiscated an arsenal of weapons, together with weapons, grenades and a machine gun belonging to dissidents from the now-disbanded FARC insurgent group.
Although the Estado Mayor Central dissidents have rejected the 2016 peace deal signed by the FARC, they agreed to a current ceasefire with the federal government of leftist President Gustavo Petro, who has promised to make peace or give up offers with Colombia’s armed teams.
The arsenal of 33 weapons, a M-60 machine gun, grenades, greater than 30,000 bullets and uniforms was being transported in two automobiles discovered deserted in Narino province, in southwestern Colombia.
“The confiscated arsenal constitutes probably the most necessary blows lately,” nationwide police director Normal Henry Armando Sanabria instructed journalists. “With this we keep away from the strengthening of an armed group.”
The weapons, made in the US, Israel and Russia, had been used and it remained to be established if that they had been bought on the black market or stolen from the army throughout assaults, Sanabria stated.
It was as much as the federal government to resolve if the motion of the arsenal constitutes a violation of the dissidents’ ceasefire with the federal government, he added.
Colombia’s police seized 15,572 weapons throughout 2022. A Reuters investigation final yr confirmed that Mexican drug cartels which purchase cocaine from Colombia’s diversified armed teams typically commerce high-powered weapons for shipments of medicine.
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