Colombia will deploy 400 soldiers to combat drug trafficking groups that operate on the borders with Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, due to the increase in murders and displacements in recent months, the government announced Monday.
There will be six squads “with 400 soldiers and officers, who will lead the operations (…) to block drug trafficking corridors to other countries in southern Colombia,” the Interior Minister told the press. Alfonso Prada, at the end of a security council.
President Gustavo Petro convened the meeting with high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces, as a result of the recent fighting between illegal groups that left 18 dead and the displacement of a dozen families in the department of Putumayo (southwest), on the border with Ecuador and Peru.
