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Weekly Report - 11 May 2017 (WR-17-18)
COLOMBIA: Chocó provides major headache for government
The defence minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, announced the deployment of 500 members of the armed forces to the north-western department of Chocó on 8 May, bringing the military contingent in the area to 6,300. Villegas made the announcement during a security council in Nóvita, the Chocó municipality from where eight people were kidnapped by suspected members of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group days earlier. Chocó has become a major battleground between illegal armed groups. Both the ELN and the country’s largest neo-paramilitary group, Clan del Golfo, are trying to expand their influence in the department into areas abandoned by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). But violence is just one of the complaints of the local population who staged a ‘civic strike’ on 10 May over perceived government neglect.
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