Colombia recently experienced a series of coordinated bomb and gun attacks, resulting in at least four deaths and many injuries. The attacks targeted police posts, municipal buildings, and civilians in and around the city of Cali. National police chief Carlos Fernando Triana reported that the assailants, linked to a dissident faction of the Farc guerrilla group, utilized car bombs, motorcycle bombs, and rifle fire. The violence has evoked fears of a return to the brutal conflicts of the 1980s and 1990s characterized by cartel warfare and political assassinations.
In Cali and the towns of Villa Rica, Guachinte and Corinto, AFP journalists witnessed the tangled wreckage of vehicles surrounded by scorched debris. The assaults came days after the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in Bogota put the country on edge.
Police and experts blamed Tuesday's attacks on a dissident faction of the once-powerful Farc guerrilla group. Security expert Elizabeth Dickenson of the International Crisis Group said the attacks were likely the work of a group known as the Central General Staff (EMC).
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