Bogotá. In the framework of joint, coordinated and interagency operations that are being carried out throughout the national territory in order to provide security and peace to all Colombians, the Military Forces have been giving heavy blows against the Organized Armed Groups - GAO.
Since the signing of the Peace Agreement on November 24, 2016, 3,158 criminals have been neutralized: 248 members of residual GAO, 1,856 of different Organized Armed Groups including "Clan del Golfo", Puntilleros and Pelusos and 1,054 ELN members.
This large operation of the Public Force and the State security agencies has been carried out mainly in the departments of Arauca, Caquetá, Cauca, Chocó, Meta, Nariño, Guaviare, Valle del Cauca and the regions of Catatumbo and Urabá. Among the main results in the operation carried out yesterday against the First and Seventh Fronts of the residual GAO, troops neutralized nine of its members, including Nelson Lerves Giraldo, alias "Leiber el Mocho", second leader of the Frente Primero and alias "Gabriel", head of the finance commission. With this result, a total of 248 neutralizations are consolidated.
On the other hand, in the framework of this operation against the Organized Armed Groups, there are results obtained against the groups "Clan del Golfo del Golfo", "Pelusos" and "Puntilleros", for example, 1,856 of its members have been neutralized, among them the second leader of the "Clan del Golfo", Roberto Vargas Gutierrez, alias "Gavilán" and 12 other leaders.
Similarly, in operations against the ELN, 1,054 of its members have been neutralized, including 23 leaders of the first and second levels; noteworthy is the result obtained last March 6, when in military operations Evaristo Gelvez Galvis, alias "Cachaco", head of the "Darío Ramírez Castro" Front of the Eln, was killed. In this operation, nine more members of this same GAO were neutralized.
In this campaign against crime, other strategic effects have been achieved, directly impacting the heart of their finances with important blows to drug trafficking. Since the signing of the Peace Agreement, the Organized Armed Groups have been found to have more than 26 tons of cocaine and about 10 tons of marijuana, about 312 tons of coca leaf; 1,990 laboratories, 164 camps and 1,325 illegal hideouts have been destroyed. Specifically, the residual GAO had about 52 tons of solid precursors, more than 38 thousand gallons of liquid precursors; The ELN had nearly 169 tons of solid precursors and more than 85,000 gallons of liquid precursors, and the GAO about 150 tons of solid precursors and about 160,000 gallons of liquid precursors.
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