Video: 2,000 police guard humanitarian cargo to municipalities affected by miners’ strike

On the night of Monday March 13, 2,000 police accompanied the caravan of cargo vehicles with which they will supply the populations of Bajo Cauca Antioquia and southern Córdoba who have been affected by roadblocks due to protests by miners that have affected this area in the west of the country since the beginning of this month.

“With safe caravans, we will begin the journey on the road section that leads from Yarumal to Cordoba. The police, as guarantors of rights, accompanies them in the trip so that they can reach their destinations safely. #SiemprePresentes #DiosYPatria (sic),” the official Antioquia Police Twitter account reported.

The Ministry of Defense also indicated that the Men in uniform guard the shipments of food and medicine they need in several municipalities.

“More than 2,000 @PoliciaColombia police with high-powered motorcycles, tanks and armored vehicles, accompany the caravans at night of permanent supply of food and medicine, escorting public and private transport in Antioquia and Córdoba (sic)”, they trilled.

Members of the military also support these the routes of vehicles transporting humanitarian aid, as well as those of intermunicipal transport.

“In Yarumal, Antioquia, a caravan of cargo vehicles, passengers and individuals begins, which will be escorted by land and air by @FuerzasMilCol and @PoliciaColombia, bound for Tarazá, Cáceres and Caucasia, carrying food and medicine,” they added in the Defense portfolio.

He miners’ strike in the Colombian departments of Antioquia and Córdoba (northwest) which completes 12 days of public disorder, blockades, attacks on medical missions and other acts of violence fueled by by the criminal gang Clan del Golfo has become a challenge for the Colombian state.

The “false miners’ strike” As described by the Governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, not only are more than 250,000 people confined to 16 municipalities in northwestern Colombia with food shortages and shortages of other products, including gas, On the contrary, it plunged the Bajo Cauca and Northeast sub-regions into chaos.

The bone The miners have been demonstrating since March 2 against the operations of the army and the police against illegal mining in the region but, according to the authorities, behind this mobilization is the Clan del Golfo, which benefits from the exploitation of minerals in different parts of the country.

in these areas In recent days there have been attacks on towns and public forces, gunshots and detonations and the burning of three machines from a road construction site and several trucks, among other acts of vandalism.

“We are in a situation of absolute anguish. We have never had a miners’ strike before that lasted so many days or frightened the population so much and with no way out,” says a trader from the municipality of Tarazá, where on Sunday evening hooded men set fire to a toll booth.