The balance of the violence unleashed by the “Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia” (AGC), the political name of the Clan del Golfo, left 18 vehicles and six motorcycles incinerated in towns in the department of Antioch (northwest), in the subregion known as Bajo Cauca.
While in the departments of Sucre 10 vehicles were burned and in his neighbor Cordova two buses and four motorcycles were burned.
The situation forced Orlando Benítez, governor of Córdoba, to prohibition from this Thursday and until next Monday of the circulation of two people on a motorcycle and the carrying of weapons, He also suspended classes in public and private schools.
In the south of the department of Bolivar five vehicles were incinerated, while in Barranquilla, capital of the Atlantic, two men set fire to a bus. Both were arrested by authorities.
The Colombian Defense Minister, Diego Molano, reduced the situation to “three road obstructions” and “some damage to vehicles that have been incinerated,” but warned that “the offensive against this Clan of the Gulf continues.”
“The public force has provided devices within the Democracy Plan to provide protection and security in those areas where the Clan del Golfo has influence, as a potential retaliation for the extradition of alias Otoniel,” he said.
Molano also reported the capture of five people, in the cities of Montería, Barranquilla and Cereté, indicated to be members of the Clan del Golfo.
The Foundation for Press Freedom expressed its “concern” in a bulletin “for the censorship that fifteen media outlets are suffering” and that include harassment of journalists by armed men.
Otoniel, who until his arrest in October 2021 was the most wanted man in Colombia, was extradited on Wednesday from Bogotá to New York to face a court for cocaine trafficking.
The drug lord appeared this Thursday before the Brooklyn court judge and pleaded not guilty.
Until his capture, near the border with Panama, “Otoniel” commanded the drug cartel responsible for 30% (about 300 tons) of cocaine exports from the world’s largest producer of that drug.
For the Colombian government, his capture and subsequent extradition is the most forceful blow against the mafia since the death of Pablo Escobar, shot down by the police in 1993.
Source: Ambito
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