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Colombia map. – Four suspected members of Colombia’s biggest drug cartel were killed last week in airstrikes on their bases, President Gustavo Petro announces on Monday, December 9, 2024. The bombardments of the Gulf Clan in the country’s northwest are the first against the group under the left-wing president of Colombia. INQUIRER STOCK PHOTO
BOGOTA, Colombia — Four suspected members of Colombia’s biggest drug cartel were killed last week in airstrikes on their bases, President Gustavo Petro announced Monday.
The bombardments of the Gulf Clan in the country’s northwest are the first against the group under Colombia’s left-wing president.
Article continues after this advertisementWriting on the social network X, Petro said the raids in the department of Antioquia “left four dead among the cartel’s members” and added that eight rifles were seized.
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Petro also confirmed that four soldiers were accidentally killed in the operation while descending from a helicopter.
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Article continues after this advertisementThe Colombian Army used airstrikes under successive right-wing governments for over half a century to combat left-wing guerrilla groups like the Marxist FARC movement, which laid down arms after an historic peace deal in 2016.
Article continues after this advertisementAntioquia is one of the strongholds of the Gulf Clan, which controls a vast drug trafficking, human trafficking, and illegal gold mining empire.
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Article continues after this advertisementThe group’s leader, Dairo Antonio Usuga, was captured in October 2022 and extradited to the United States, where was sentenced to 45 years in prison for cocaine smuggling.
Petro has launched talks with several armed groups since coming to power.
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