The troops continue to be conducted as part of a major operation to stabilize the territory, and they will continue in the area to continue damaging the logistical and criminal networks of these illegal groups.
During operations in recent hours, the Military Forces sustained heavy fighting against the organized armed group Franco Benavides structure of the FARC dissidents, in the village El Palacio rural area of the municipality of Andes Sotomayor, Nariño.
The incident was reported in the midst of the operation of the Military Forces, with the aim of providing security conditions in this area of dispute of criminal armed groups, which mainly harm civilians.
The military operation resulted in the finding of a machinegun, two rifles, a shotgun and two pistols, as well as magazines of different calibers, more than 14,000 units of ammunition of different calibers that were packed in five plastic barrels, a hand grenade and a box of detonators used in the initiation of explosive substances used against peasants as happened recently in rural Florida, where a citizen lost one of his limbs when activating an anti-personnel mine.
Information gathered by the authority shows that with this material, FARC dissidents were systematically intimidating the inhabitants of this area of the department.
Similarly, 13 USB sticks, a drone and a laptop were found by troops at the scene. As for the material of military accessories, it was possible to find vests, camouflage uniforms, a bracelet alluding to the aforementioned armed group and trousers for exclusive use of the National Police.
All the confiscated material was put into custody of the authorities.
These results hit the armed and military capacity of this gang, preventing criminal operations that threaten the security of the Military Forces and civilians. In the same way, their mechanisms for carrying out criminal intelligence operations in the different mobility routes used to carry out crimes are weakened.
The Military forces will continue to combat the factors of instability that disturb the inhabitants of the municipalities of La Llanada and Andes Sotomayor in Nariño, in a joint, coordinated and inter-institutional work that leads to dismantling the organized armed groups that commit crimes in the south of the country.
