{"id":13206,"date":"2024-12-03T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=13206"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T07:52:01","slug":"twelve-killed-in-colombia-clashes-between-farc-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/twelve-killed-in-colombia-clashes-between-farc-dissidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve killed in Colombia clashes between FARC dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A dozen people have been killed in southwestern Colombia since Saturday due to fighting between two dissident factions of the defunct FARC guerilla group, a local government official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twelve have been killed in battles since November 30,&#8221; Yovani Cortes, secretary of the Puerto Guzman municipality, told La FM radio station.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes in the southwestern Putumayo department were between fighters led by a commander under the alias of Calarca and members of the Segunda Marquetalia, a military source told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>On the border of Ecuador, Putumayo has disputed territories planted with coca, the main component of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Calarca is one of the top leaders of a guerilla faction that has been in peace negotiations with Colombian authorities since October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Segunda Marquetalia is facing internal divisions over its leadership during its own talks with President Gustavo Petro&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>Petro, Colombia&#8217;s first left-wing president, is trying to defuse the six-decade-old armed conflict by holding peace talks with various guerrilla groups and criminal gangs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen people have been killed in southwestern Colombia since Saturday due to fighting between two dissident factions of the defunct FARC guerilla group, a local government official said Monday. &#8220;Twelve have been killed in battles since November 30,&#8221; Yovani Cortes, secretary of the Puerto Guzman municipality, told La FM radio station. The clashes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13208,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions\/13208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}