Alias “Canoso” is accused of participating in the massacre of the indigenous governor Mrs. Cristina Bautista, in 2019, in the municipality of Tacueyó, in Toribío, in the department de Cauca.
In the Pajarito village, municipality El Palo, in Caloto, department of Cauca, through intelligence activities, troops of the Rapid Deployment Force No. 4 of the National Army, in coordination with the National Police, captured by judicial order Mr. Miguel Virgilio Orozco, alias “Canoso,” third ringleader and coordinator of terrorist operations of the Residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Structure Sixth, “Dagoberto Ramos Ortiz,” for the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime.
Alias “Canoso” is accused of participating as the brain of attacks with motorcycles loaded with explosives against the Public Force in the municipalities of Padilla, Corinto and Suárez, in the department of Cauca. In the same way, it is presumed that he participated in the attack against two members of the indigenous guard in the Pajarito village, Corinto municipality, in the department of Cauca. This individual apparently was part of the security groups of the GAO Los Pelusos. Likewise, he would have executed the massacre of a group of topography surveyors who were carrying out reconnaissance work in 2019, in Corinto. In the same way, he would have perpetrated extortion against merchants. He is charged with the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime, and, at the time of his capture, of illegal carrying of firearms. He was also requested by the Attorney General's Office.
With the capture, this Structure is hit in the command and control and financial subsystems, its drug trafficking and extortion business. In the same way, authorities prevent the recovery in the number of armed men and territorial control and expansion towards the Valle del Cauca department.
Source: Press - National Army
