By countering the criminal activity of the Residual Organized Armed Group (GAO-r) Estructura Primera, nearly 500 people were prevented from being hit by anti-personnel mines and other explosives found in an illegal hideout.
Throughout operation José María Córdova, the command of the Twenty-Second Jungle Brigade of the Fourth Division of the National Army, with troops of the Infantry Battalion No.24, in compliance with the constitutional mission, they found and destroyed an illegal hideout with explosives and anti-personnel mines in it, in the municipality of Calamar, Guaviare, which according to military intelligence would have been collected to be planted in sectors where illicit plantation eradication is currently being carried out and in areas where the community and troops pass through.
After a military control in the village of Altamira, in the municipality of Calamar, Guaviare, 30 kilometers away the municipality, in the middle of the jungle, troops searched and determined that in an uninhabited house there was an illegal hideout with 40 landmines, which would belong to the GAO-r Estructura Primera under the command of alias Iván Mordisco.
Brigadier General Giovanni Rodríguez León, commander of the Twenty-Second Jungle Brigade, said: “The National Army carry out operations permanently against residual organized armed groups that seek to attack the life and wellbeing of the inhabitants. Those operations aim to provide security and tranquility to communities in the southeast of the country and also to contribute to the economic and social development of the department.”
Moreover, and as part of the commitment of the troops to the protection and conservation of the environment, troops of the Infantry Battalion No.19 within the framework of Operation Artemisa, they planted approximately 200 trees in the Agua Bonita village of the municipality of San José del Guaviare.
In this way, the operational strategy against the threat in 2021 already deliver heavy and positive results, not only in terms of security but also in the purpose of reforesting and the preservation of the fauna and flora of the region of La Esperanza.
Source: press - Twenty-Second Jungle Brigade
