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A counter narcotics police officer runs through a coca field during a raid on a lab to make coca base, an intermediate product of the transformation process from leaves to cocaine, in La Hormiga, Putumayo state, Colombia, April 9, 2022
AT LEAST nine soldiers have been killed in Colombia and another nine injured in an attack early today on a military post in a troubled region near the country’s border with Venezuela, authorities said.
The military gave no details of the assault in El Carmen in the state of Norte de Santander, but said a preliminary assessment indicated it may have been carried out by the National Liberation Army (ELN), the country’s last active guerilla group.
It would be the most serious attack by the guerillas since November when they resumed peace talks with the government and would complicate efforts by Colombia’s left-wing president Gustavo Petro to bring “total peace” to the nation of 50 million.
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Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
