Military deployed to protect Colombian school children
Military deployed to protect Colombian school children
Government responds to mafia threats with show of military force
04.04.2016
By Richard McColl
BOGOTA, Colombia
Soldiers were deployed Monday to parts of northern Colombia to combat violence and threats from a paramilitary group that imposed a 48-hour blockade of the area.
Forty towns in 15 departments were paralyzed economically as business owners and schools were threatened should they open during the blockade that also resulted in the deaths of nine policemen.
“Colombia has never before given in to criminals using acts of violence like this,” said President Juan Manuel Santos during a press conference.
“We will continue strike at their criminal structures until they understand that there is no alternative than to surrender to Colombian justice,” he added.
The Usaga Clan, an off-shoot of former right-wing paramilitary groups formed to combat the country’s leftist guerrillas and which nominally demobilized in 2006, number an estimated 3,000 fighters and receives its income from drugs trafficking, illegal mining and extortion.
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