Colombia announces that it will start a military offensive against illegal armed groups operating in border areas and is seeking collaboration from neighbours
Security sources have said extensive crops of coca - the main ingredient in cocaine - have been detected along Colombia's borders, as have laboratories for producing the drug.
"We have established contact with the countries on the border, because we noticed activity on the border that we are going to combat with our forces, but also with the international collaboration of Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela and Panama," Prada told journalists on Monday. President Gustavo Petro, the first leftist to lead the country, who took power in August, recently restarted peace talks with the National Liberation Army guerrilla group, with negotiations in Venezuela, while also looking to implement a 2016 peace deal with now-demobilized FARC guerrillas.
Under plans for total peace, Petro also hopes to end fighting with two dissident FARC factions who reject that peace deal, while drug traffickers and criminal gangs involved in cocaine production and trafficking could receive reduced prison sentences if they submit to justice, share details about trafficking routes, and turn over their fortunes.Six platoons of 400 personnel each will be deployed to the south of the country, Prada added.
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