Explosive attack near a gas pipeline in Sardinata (Norte de Santander)

The situation of public order in the east of the country remains complicated, after the series of attacks that were perpetrated against the Force Publique, as well as against its infrastructure as reported on the morning of Tuesday, March 14, after an explosive device was planted and detonated in the municipality of Sardinata (Norte de Santander) near the municipality’s gas pipeline.

The event occurred on one side of the road south of this population and resulted in the area There was no electricity service at the Sardinata Sur, Campo Giles, Campo Dos, Llano Grande, La Cuatro, K15 and Punta de Palo gasworks, reported on the station snail radio.

Also several corregimientos of Sardinata, commented in the magazine Week, were left without electricity, so the company that provides this service, Centrales Eléctricas de Norte de Santander (Cens) of Grupo EPM, Specialized personnel were sent to the site to restore it.

They added that The army has troops in this population of northern Santander who ensure the protection of the inhabitants, although at the moment they do not know which illegal armed group was the author of the attack, although historically This is an area where the ELN has committed crimes, so it cannot be ruled out that they are responsible.

And it is that this guerrilla also attacked on the night of Monday 13 in Saravena (Arauca) with explosives in the military canton of San Jorge in the municipality of Saravena (Arauca), as reported by the National Army.

“In a cowardly terrorist action which transgresses the provisions of international humanitarian law and violates human rights, The military canton of San Jorge in Saravena #Arauca was attacked with explosive devices by GAO Eln (sic)”, reported on the official Twitter account of the National Army’s Eighth Division.

And on Tuesday, March 14, a new attack on the military was reported, where a soldier was seriously injured after being hit by sniper fire while carrying out surveillance work.

“In accordance with the constitutional mission, in Saravena #Arauca a career soldier was wounded by a sniper, a criminal act allegedly perpetrated by the organized armed group ELN. according to medical report your health is reserved (sic),” they confirmed on the official Eighth Division Twitter account.

In the Armed Forces publication, they attached a statement in which they detailed how the attack was carried out in the urban area of ​​the mentioned municipality.

On Friday 10 March, the second round of negotiations with the ELN in Mexico concluded where there has been no significant progress for the insurgents to abandon the use of violence, according to the report delivered by alias Pablo Beltrán, one of the main subversive leaders of this guerrilla.

“There will be a halt to offensive operations, we are maintaining a defensive system of course. Even a government official told me and those of the Clan del Golfo, and then I told him that if he didn’t touch me, I wouldn’t touch him,” assured in an interview with snail radio.

While at the station Radio Blue He reiterated that a cessation of hostilities has not yet been agreed and recalled the frustrated announcement at the end of the year when the President, Gustavo Petro, took it for granted: “We said that the ELN respects the agreement in which it participates and signs it, in the meantime not. Since they did not consult us, we could not complete it. It’s like a courtship, when they first do it to you, you get to know what the other party is like.

Although he assured that the ELN guerrillas had no offensive will, he admitted that achieving a ceasefire will not be easy: “The ceasefire has a big problem. First of all, the art consists in saying what is forbidden and what is not. We agreed that it has to be a transition. We prove that we comply and we build trust.”

In the meantime Sergio Jaramillo, one of the former negotiators of the peace process with the FARC, pointed out that in an interview he gave to the radio W Radio that the ELN their will to end the conflict has not been demonstrated.

“(This group) does not commit to anything, but rather leaves the doors open to endless negotiations. We are facing a kind of armed peace that violates the sacred principle of Havana, which is to close the cycle between politics and arms,” He said on the radio.