The air interception operation was directed at two substructures of the aforementioned organized armed group.
Soldiers of the National Army, in a joint, coordinated and inter-institutional manner with the Air Force, the National Police and the Attorney General's Office, deal a severe blow to a structure of the Organized Armed Group, GAO, Clan del Golfo, on the borders of the departments of Córdoba and Antioquia.
After a precise intelligence work was carried out, it was possible to identify a camp area, in the El Socorro sector, on the borders of the aforementioned departments, where there were alleged members of the Rubén Darío Ávila and Julio Cesar Vargas substructures, of the GAO Clan del Golfo. There this code beta operation of interception was conducted and so far leaves 11 suspected members of this criminal structure neutralized in the military operation.
The troops in the same way found 11 rifles, a mortar grenade launcher, five field equipment, as well as communications material and military accessories and accessories for the exclusive use of the Military Forces.
This operation leads to a decisive weakening of the armed and financial component of these structures, which were in this area trying to control the mobility routes for the shipment of coca to the Pacific Ocean.
On the other hand, it should be noted that the Rubén Darío Ávila substructure is responsible for the murder of five soldiers, on September 21, 2021 in a rural area of the municipality of Puerto Libertador, in the department of Córdoba.
In the same way, members of the Julio Cesar Vargas substructure allegedly carried out terrorist operations against civilians, on the road that connects the municipalities of Tarazá and Valdivia, in Antioquia, including the murder of the driver of an NPR type vehicle and the attack on motorcyclists where a woman was murdered, at the end of 2021.
These criminal were beating the communities of the north of the department of Antioquia and the south of the department of Córdoba, with threats and extortions, especially against small merchants and transporters.
Source: press-National Army
