The significant increase in the number of units, will be reflected in specialties such as Special Forces, anti-kidnapping and anti-extortion, Comprehensive Action, military intelligence, air support, elements for river patrols, strategic communications, anti-explosives, among others. These members of the Military Forces will complement those already in the zone belonging to the Joint Task Force Marte.
In compliance with the commitments at the security meeting held last week in Santa Rosa del Sur, Bolivar, General Helder Fernan Giraldo Bonilla, General Commander of the Military Forces, ordered the increase and strengthening of institutional presence in that area of the country.
This is how, since the beginning of this week and in the next few days, specialized components will arrive in the region to carry out operations to provide security for the commitments for the return of families that have been forcibly displaced by the armed confrontations of the criminal groups that commit crimes there.
Upon the arrival of the Special Forces the previous week, in the coming hours troops composed of soldiers, Elite Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) units, anti-explosive military technicians, Comprehensive Action specialists, military intelligence analysts, a strategic communications component, river elements for patrols, as well as manned and unmanned aircraft of the Army Aviation and the Aerospace Force will begin to join.
These members of the Military Forces, who complement those already in the operations area of the Joint Task Force Marte, will be responsible for carrying out a complete operational deployment with units at strategic points that lead to weaken the logistical and criminal structures of the criminal organizations that commit crimes in the area.
The military personnel of the Army, the Navy and the Aerospace Force sent to the region have differential resources in anti-terrorism operations, anti-kidnapping and anti-extortion operations, techniques and tactics for the finding, detection and neutralization of explosive devices and anti-personnel mines, terrain reconnaissance, construction of social fabric and wellbeing activities, skills for the recognition and identification of members of illegal groups, skills to contact media in a truthful and timely manner, as well as the aviation security to find possible threats against civilians and Military Forces.
There will be more than 600 men and women, some of whom are already on the ground and the others will begin to arrive in the area and thus strengthen the institutional work in favor of the defense, security and well-being of the inhabitants of this region of the southern department of Bolivar.
