00:00Dressed in camouflage, wearing a beret, and signing a 460-kilo bomb with the legend "Welcome"
00:06To the Miracle Homeland. President Abelardo de las Priegas put his stamp on the eighth bombing
00:11which he implemented in the nearly 100 days his administration is about to complete. Meanwhile,
00:15Criminal groups are not letting up on their attacks, and attacks against [unspecified groups] have been recorded in the country.
00:20Military bases, tollbooths, hospitals, and civilian population. The government's first bombing raid
00:25Priegas was on August 11, 2026, against ELN structures in Norte de Santander. From that operation,
00:32Initially, the deaths of two people and the destruction of five camps were reported.
00:36Two bunkers and the seizure of weapons, explosives, and drones. Almost 20 days later,
00:41It was learned that a minor died during the operation. The second and third bombings of
00:46The government of Las Priegas registered on August 27 and September 1, 2026 against the
00:51FARC dissidents in the rural area of Guaviare. According to forensic medicine, in the first of these
00:56Three minors died in the operations. Ten days later, the fourth bombing occurred.
01:00against the dissidents and the fifth was on October 22 against the ELN, in which nine died
01:06suspected guerrillas. A week later, the government confirmed the sixth attack against the
01:10The coup clan and on November 9th, the seventh coup took place in Catatumbo. The following day,
01:16On the night of November 10, the government carried out the eighth bombing in the rural area of Tarasá,
01:22Antioquia, against the Gulf Clan. The government reported eight dead, among them
01:27Hamilton Mosquera, alias Negro PDA, one of the criminal leaders of that organization. Also
01:32Five rifles, two pistols, four anti-personnel mines and communication equipment were seized.
01:37According to de las Priegas, the bombings have been and will be the response to the offensive they are maintaining
01:42criminal groups in the country through attacks and drone strikes with explosives.
01:47This drone warfare in Colombia is an arena in which armed groups,
01:51They are gaining more and more ground, and the state is falling short in its ability to respond.
01:55According to the Ideas for Peace Foundation, 119 attacks were recorded in 2024.
02:01In 2025 there were 277, and this year, as of November 2nd, there have been 351. Furthermore, according to this same source...
02:10The organization, the public force has been the main target of these attacks, with 401 wounded and 24 dead
02:16between 2024 and October 8th of this year. During this same period, the impact on civilians remaining in
02:22Amid the conflict between armed groups and the state, 55 wounded and 6 killed were recorded.
02:28The attack on the military cantonment of Santa Rosa, Bolívar, is one of the most recent. In the action,
02:34attributed by the authorities to the ELN, they used both homemade mortars and a swarm of drones loaded with
02:39explosives, which left 3 soldiers dead and 47 wounded. This event has been described as the most
02:45serious since 2023. Between October 31 and November 1, 3 attacks were recorded in the country,
02:51which left 4 people dead, including a 2-month-old baby, and more than 20 people injured.
02:58In this whole scenario, President Espriella, through radio broadcasts, has given orders to the Ministry of
03:04Defense officials are preparing to move forward with operations and have promised that for every attack, there will be a bombing.
03:09These scenes have shaped the narrative of his government's iron fist.
03:13while criminal groups continue the war.
