'Guacho' is the "armed arm" of the Sinaloa cartel according to Colombian prosecutor

The Colombian prosecutor, Néstor Humberto Martínez, said today that the group of FARC dissidents led by Walter Patricio Arizala, alias "Guacho", is the "armed arm" of the Sinaloa Cartel, a situation that he believes could lead to a "geopolitical" problem "

"'Guacho' and all its dissidents are, to say it clearly according to information that we have judicialized in the Attorney General's Office, the armed wing of the Sinaloa cartel," said Martinez in his speech at the National Congress of Municipalities, held in Cartagena de Indias

The prosecutor added that this situation is affecting "the tranquility and peace of the citizen of a friendly and bordering country like Ecuador", because in the border area between both nations a journalistic team of the newspaper El Comercio was murdered and two civilians were kidnapped for that group, self-styled "Front
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Colombian Vice President Óscar Naranjo said on Tuesday that the authorities of his country have as a "priority" to close the way to those who want to sow violence in the border area.

According to the Ecuadorian government, the murder of the journalistic team and the kidnapping of a couple took place in the context of the fight against drug traffickers in the border province of Esmeraldas.

Since the end of January, in that Ecuadorian zone, FARC dissidents have detonated at least seven explosives, which have resulted in the death of four marines.

Colombian Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín said yesterday that the government ordered "the deployment of 12,000 soldiers and police officers with command post in the municipality of Tumaco", in the department of Nariño (southwest), as part of the fight against transnational crimes that affect both countries.