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Weekly Report - 01 May 2025 (WR-25-17)
COLOMBIA: A new ‘plan pistola’
A string of attacks on the Colombian security forces continued this week, with President Gustavo Petro lamenting on 29 April that 27 soldiers and police officers had been killed over the past two weeks. Petro laid the blame for this with the Clan del Golfo drug trafficking organisation (DTO), saying that security personnel had been targeted as part of a ‘plan pistola’ – a generalised offensive in which hitmen are paid a bounty for killing any member of the security forces.
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