00:00On Monday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked the Heads of the Armed Forces to investigate
00:05whether the exclusive use in Saturday's attack near Cajibillo in the Department of Cauca
00:10came from Ecuador.
00:11During our televised address, the President argued that the violence in the Cauca Department
00:17cannot be solely attributed to armed factions such as dissidents from the Revolutionary
00:21Armed Forces of Colombia.
00:23Petro assured the dissidents obeyed the drug cartel and warned that with these attacks
00:28drug traffickers are seeking to sabotage the presidential elections, the first round of
00:32which will take place on May 31st.
00:35The Colombian head of state added that according to these hypotheses, armed groups have shifted
00:40their targets and are now attacking civilians such as the victims of Cajibillo's attack.
00:52What I want you to investigate is whether the explosives, as my sources tell me they are
00:57arriving, and I hope you'll look into the one in Cajibillo specifically, but in general,
01:02the explosives that reach the fronts in Cajibillo, from the drug trafficking network, come from
01:08Ecuador.
01:12We have a growing problem with this.
01:15They want to sabotage the elections so the extreme right wins out of fear, and they're
01:20using their drug trafficking networks.
01:23It is a hypothesis to be confirmed, but one that is becoming increasingly plausible.
01:27That's why they no longer kill soldiers, but rather local farmers.
01:38And in Colombia, relatives and neighbors gather on Monday for the funeral of bomb attack victims
01:44in the community of Cajibillo in the Cauca Department.
01:47The police have a deadly bombing on the Pan-American Highway killed 20 people and left 48 injured
01:51sparking grief across the nation.
01:53Locals gather at the sports center in downtown Cajibillo to honor the memory of the dead as a
01:58caravan accompanied their remains to the rural area for their final funeral.
02:02The incident is the country's deadliest bomb attack on civilians in decades and continues
02:07to be denounced as an attempt to influence the upcoming elections.
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