{"id":119176,"date":"2021-04-18T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T06:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119176"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T06:16:20","slug":"colombia-rebel-clash-leaves-15-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119176","title":{"rendered":"Colombia rebel clash leaves 15 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/col.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/col.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BOGOTA, April 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 14 guerrillas and one soldier were killed Saturday in clashes in southwest Colombia between the army and dissidents from the FARC ex-rebel force, which disarmed after signing a 2016 peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn military operations, 14 people were neutralized\u201d in the town of Algeria, Cauca department, Defense Minister Diego Molano said during a public event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Twitter, General Eduardo Zapateiro, the army\u2019s commander, identified the deceased as members of a FARC splinter group that rejects the terms of the peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dead soldier was identified as Corporal Diego Ricardo Gomez Chavez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Troops \u201cwere attacked through the indiscriminate use of explosive devices,\u201d Zapateiro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Molano, troops were taking part in an operation ordered after a car bomb attack that left 43 injured in the neighboring municipality of Corinto on March 27 and was attributed to FARC dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no unified command, the dissident militants number about 2,500 and operate mainly in drug trafficking and in the illegal sale of gold and other minerals, according to military intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Cauca region, they are fighting against the National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia\u2019s last recognized rebel force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombia is in the midst of its worst outbreak of violence since the signing of the peace deal with what was Latin America\u2019s most powerful insurgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombia continues to reckon with the conflict that, in nearly 60 years, claimed more than nine million victims between the dead, missing and displaced. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, April 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least 14 guerrillas and one soldier were killed Saturday in clashes in southwest Colombia between the army and dissidents from the FARC ex-rebel force, which disarmed after signing a 2016 peace deal. \u201cIn military operations, 14 people were neutralized\u201d in the town of Algeria, Cauca department, Defense Minister Diego [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}