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<h1 class="reader-title">Politician, Social Leader, 3 Ex-FARC
Members Killed in Colombia</h1>
September 7, 2019</div>
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<p>A political candidate, a social leader and three former
combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC) were murdered in the Toledo, Cucuta and the Choco
regions in the last 24 hours, local sources reported.</p>
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<p>The candidate for the mayorship of Toledo, located in
Antioquia, northwest Colombia, Orley Garcia, was killed
on Saturday after been shot more than 10 times. The
Colombian Seventh Division of the Army and the Police
reported that they are in the process of identifying
those responsible. </p>
<p>He was hospitalized urgently in the local hospital, but
due to his critical condition transferred by helicopter
to Medellin, where he succumbed to his wounds.</p>
<p>Earlier on Saturday authorities in the northeastern
Cucuta region reported the murder of three ex-combatants
of FARC, who were part of the Territorial Training and
Reincorporation Agency (ETCR) in Caño Indio, a place
created for ease adaptation of ex-members into civilian
life.</p>
<p>The ex-insurgents were gunned down by a hitman in a
city hotel that resulted in two fatalities, Milton
Urrutia Mora and Jose Milton Peña Pineda, and a third
who resulted injured who were referred to a health
center. </p>
<p>According to the report from the Cucuta police, none of
the men had a security scheme or escorts to protect
their lives. </p>
<p><strong>#Colombia New murders of social leader and
ex-combatants.</strong>
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<p>In addition to these deaths, social leader Jose Cortes,
president of the Llorente Community Action Board was
also killed in Nariño, southwest of Colombia, as well as
the ex-combatant in the process of reintegration Jakson
Mena in the Department of Choco, northwest Colombia. </p>
<p>Just over a year after Ivan Duque’s ascension to the
Colombia Presidency, one of the major problems affecting
his mandate has been the repeated assassination of
social leaders in the country, to which his government
has failed to react. </p>
<p>According to the director of the Institute of Studies
for Development and Peace, Camilo Gonzalez, a
compilation of murders revealed that 229 human rights
defenders have been killed since the right-wing
president took over in August 2018. </p>
<p>"It gives us 229 people, social leaders who since
August 7 have been killed because of their defense of
the territory and their communities," Gonzalez
explained.</p>
<p>While the murders of former FARC combatants in the
country, from November 2016 to June 2019, add up to
139. </p>
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