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Colombia president decrees emergency powers to restore order in coca region wracked by rebel combat

Colombia gives him an urgent authority on Friday, gives urgent authority to restore order in the Coca -grown area adjacent to Venezuela, and has recently been fatal among the rebellion rebellion groups. Wrack by war.

The extended Gustavo Petro orders will give you 90 days to impose the curfew, restrict traffic, violate Colombian civil rights, or take other measures that require parliamentary approval. 。

Officials say that at least 80 people died in northeast Colombia as the peace negotiations failed.

President Colombia has been using such extreme measures to emphasize the seriousness of the current conflict in a country that has been paralyzed by political violence for decades for decades.

However, it applies only to the rural catatambo area near the border with Venezuela. Venezuela has been struggling for decades for Colombia to get a foothold. Estimated 36,000 people were evacuated last week due to the death of at least 80 people, the battle was enhanced by the National Liberation Army or ELN, and the holdouts from the Colombian revolution or FARC were enhanced.

On Tuesday, January 21, 2025, the police patrol at Colombia's Tibes following the guerrilla attacks, killing dozens of people and forced thousands of people to escape from the Katatambo area. (AP Photo/Fernando VERGARA)

Petro's conservative opponents criticized this movement and accused the former guerrilla in the constitution. But some activists celebrated it. They say that this movement is traditionally better to be converted into better infrastructure, healthcare, and school in the lawful areas.

“Why is there an armed group here? Because the last government hasn't invested. Because they abandoned us,” said Haime Botello, a Tibu town activist. 。

Earlier this week, Petro resembles the arrest order to the 31 Top Erun Commander, which had been stopped as part of the efforts to beg for a rebellion against the Peace Agreement, with the Cuban Revolution. Petro also stopped all peace negotiations that have been slowly moving forward since 2022.

ELN was traditionally dominated by Catatumbo, but after signing a peace agreement with the government in 2016, he lost his basis for holdouts from the mainly dissolved guerrilla group, FARC.

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The current dispute has leaked to Venezuela over the border.

The current location of ELN Peace Negotiator is unknown. But the Cuba government states this week that they are not there and speculate that some of them may be hidden in Venezuela, one of the Peace Initiative sponsors of Petro with Erun. I derived.

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