Diego Molano announced a new coup against the Gulf Clan

The Minister of Defense assured that two members of the Gulf Clan were killed in El Bagre, Antioquia

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The national authorities have repeatedly assured that the security forces maintain constant operations aimed at defeating the criminal group known as the Gulf Clan. In carrying out these tasks, it was recently known that two of its members had been killed.

Defense Minister Diego Molano reported that two men were killed in El Bagre, Antioquia. There, members of the National Army and the Police also seized war material that linked the subjects to this criminal group.

According to preliminary information, the two subjects who were killed by the Colombian public forces would be members of the Uldar Cardona Rueda substructure, which among its area of influence has the municipality located in Bajo Cauca in Antioquia.

Among the material seized by the authorities during the operation that took place in La Bonga, in El Bagre (Antioquia) are two 9mm firearms, ten cartridges, two suppliers, a grenade and a cell phone.

So far the authorities have not revealed the identity of the alleged criminals who were neutralized in Antioquia.

Member of the Gulf Clan, allegedly responsible for the murder of an indigenous leader in Chocó

The Attorney General's Office reported that, at the request of a specialized prosecutor of the Chocó Section, a judge sent Yisson Ibarguen Santos to jail for the crime of aggravated homicide, an aggravated crime concert and trafficking and carrying of firearms and ammunition.

Santos, who belonged to the Pacific Substructure, of the organized crime group Clan del Golfo, would be responsible for the murder of indigenous leader Miguel Tapi Rico. According to the Prosecutor's Office in a statement: “Miguel Tapi Rico was killed with a knife, after he was forced to leave his home in the El Valle district in Bahía Solano (Chocó).”

According to the investigation, Ibarguen Santos along with the other men located the house of Miguel Tapi Rico, where they allegedly forced him to go out and walk with them to the banks of the Valle River where he was allegedly killed with a knife.

Victim Miguel Tapi Rico, belonged to the Embera Dobida indigenous community and was governor on several occasions of the Valle and Boroboro rivers, and at the time of his murder, was an ethnic leader of the Bacuru Purru indigenous reservation.

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