{"id":479610,"date":"2025-08-21T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/terrorist-attack-leaves-at-least-5-dead-and-14-injured-in-colombia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:36:24","slug":"terrorist-attack-leaves-at-least-5-dead-and-14-injured-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/terrorist-attack-leaves-at-least-5-dead-and-14-injured-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist attack leaves at least 5 dead and 14 injured in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Colombia<\/strong>.\u2013 At least five people died and 14 were injured in a terrorist attack that occurred on the afternoon of this Thursday near the Marco Fidel Su\u00e1rez air base, in Cali, as confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicepresidencia.gov.co\/gobierno\/presidente\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.vicepresidencia.gov.co\/gobierno\/presidente\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a> Gustavo Petro.\n\nThe leader strongly condemned the attack, which he described as an act of terrorism directed against the civilian population.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cNo es lo mismo un combate entre fuerzas que portan ambas armas que matar a civiles desarmados. Lo que acontece en Cali es un acto que irradia p\u00e1nico en la poblaci\u00f3n civil, asesinarla de manera sistem\u00e1tica\u201d, <\/p><cite>declar\u00f3 Petro.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/colombia-despide-a-miguel-uribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/acusado-de-fraude-electrico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preventive detention for someone accused of attacking the electrical system<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe head of state attributed the attack to retaliation by drug trafficking groups against the actions taken by his government against organized crime.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cEl terrorismo es la nueva expresi\u00f3n de las facciones que se dicen dirigidas por Iv\u00e1n Mordisco, y que se han supeditado al control de \u2018La Junta del Narcotr\u00e1fico\u2019\u201d, <\/p><cite>asegur\u00f3 el presidente.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nPetro pointed out that this structure is &#8220;heir to the capital block of the paramilitaries,&#8221; and that it currently directs the dissidents of Iv\u00e1n Mordisco, the Segunda Marquetalia and the Gulf Clan.\n\nIn that sense, he called on the international community for that entity to be globally designated as a &#8220;terrorist organization&#8221;.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Government considers here, and asks the world, to consider \u2018The Drug Trafficking Board\u2019 as a terrorist organization, and its armed gangs in Cauca, Guaviare, Antioquia and the Colombian Caribbean,\u201d demanded the president.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nAuthorities are keeping the attack under investigation and further operations against those responsible are not ruled out.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia.\u2013 At least five people died and 14 were injured in a terrorist attack that occurred on the afternoon of this Thursday near the Marco Fidel Su\u00e1rez air base, in Cali, as confirmed by President Gustavo Petro. 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