Deadly bomb and drone attacks in two different regions of Colombia were being linked to the government’s war on narcotrafficking by former FARC rebels.
Aug. 22 Dissident factions of the FARC guerrilla movement involved in the drugs trade were being blamed for two separate attacks in Colombia that killed at least 18 people and injured dozens more.
Six people were killed and more than 60 were injured when a car bomb detonated Thursday outside a military flight academy in the western city of Cali, prompting mayor Alejandro Eder to declare martial law, temporarily ban large trucks from the city and offer a $10,000 reward for information about the attack.
Earlier, at least 12 police officers were killed when a police helicopter on an operation in the northwest of the country to destroy coca crops — the raw ingredient of cocaine — was brought down by a drone in a rural area near Medellin.
Calling the Cali bomb blast a „terrorist attack“, Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez laid responsibility at the feet of „the narco cartel, alias Mordisco“, referrring to Ivan Mordisco, head of the heavily armed Central General Staff (EMC), the largest of the „ex-FARC mafia“ groups to emerge after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia laid down its arms in 2016 and a major player in narcotrafficking in the region.
