During the afternoon of this April 25, the Colombian president Gustavo Petro cataloged as “terroristsfascists and drug traffickers“to those responsible for the attack with a cylinder bomb that left at least seven dead and 17 injured after hitting several vehicles in the Pan-American Highwayin the municipality of Cajibiodepartment of Cauca.
“What is terrorism? It is to produce massive fear in the population through violence. Fear is the instrument of fascism to access power and control the population. Those who attacked and killed seven civilians and injured to 17 more civilians in Cajibío, many indigenous among them, are terrorists, fascists and drug traffickers,” he added.
“His boss’s name is marlonfully identified by police and military intelligence. The fronts in Cauca are criminals against humanity and should be treated that way. They want the extreme rightfascism, govern Colombia because they know that they do their business with them cocaine and illicit gold,” Petro added on social networks.
“I want the maximum global persecution against this group narcoterrorist. I want them on top of their financeI want the best soldiers To confront them, I want the people to free themselves from this mafia. I want to sign the unreasonably delayed accusation to denounce your bosses in your own name before the International Criminal Court“he concluded.
What is terrorism? It is producing massive fear in the population through violence.
Fear is the instrument of fascism to access power and of drug trafficking to control the population.
Those who attacked and killed seven civilians and injured 17 more civilians in Cajibío,…
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) April 25, 2026
“Criminals against humanity”
The head of state pointed out that these groups are part of fronts linked to Ivan Mordiscothe man most searched of Colombian territory, leader of the Central General Staff (EMC), the main dissident of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), whom he described as “criminals against humanity.”
Gustavo Petro assured that these organizations seek to produce massive fear in the Colombian population through violence and maintained that that fear It is used by both drug trafficking as by sectors extremists to exercise territorial and political control, mainly in the southwest from Colombia, where Iván is located.
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Given this situation, the president’s statement comes after an escalation of violence in it southwest of the country, where in the last hours attacks with explosives were also perpetrated against military units in Cali and Palmirain the department of Cauca Valleyas well as against a Civil Aeronautics radar.
These events have been attributed by the Colombian Army to the column Jaime Martínez of the Central General Staff, a faction that did not accept the 2016 peace agreement and continues to operate illegallywhich is why it has been classified as one of the Residual Organized Armed Groups (GAOR) by the administration of Gustavo Petro.
Petro asks to intensify the offensive
Faced with this scenario, the Colombian president asked intensify the offensive against these organizations, including the monitoring of their finances by the Financial Information and Analysis Unit (UIAF) and the deployment of more military force in the department of Caucaone of the 32 that make up the Republic of Colombia.
Finally, Gustavo Petro announced that he will advance in the formal complaint against the leaders of these groups before the International Criminal Court, considering that their actions constitute crimes of an international nature, given that its mission is to judge people accused of committing crimes of genocide, war, assault and against humanity.