Conflicts in the District of Katyubo, northeast Colombia, resulted in 54 people lost their lives after the wave of violence in a zone adjacent to Venezuela in mid -January, local authorities announced Monday, reviewing.

Conflicts are raging in the area after fighters of the National Liberation Army (ELN) have targeted the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who did not sign the 2016 peace agreement and continue their actions as well as citizens.

In the wave of violence this is attributed to 54 confirmed deaths, 11 injuries, 12 disappearances and 48,000 forced displacements, according to the newest report of the authorities in the prefecture of Norte Santader —They, which is administratively subject to the Catybus – who thus reviewed the report of the dead.

Until yesterday, there was talk of at least 80 dead, based on references from the field.

New clashes between rebels since last Friday had the result of killing 13 people. The Prefecture in Norte DE Santader clarified that the victims were FARCs.

‘There are very distant, very wild places’ in the cattubo and “I imagine other corpses will be identified”He was discounted by George Kintero, a security official in Norte DE Santader, in his statements to the Caracol Noticias television network.

According to the people’s lawyer, an independent public authority responsible for the protection of human rights, the displacements are the most recorded since 1997, when statistics for the phenomenon in Colombia began to be systematically observed.

The government of President Gustavos Petros developed more than 10,000 members of the Armed Forces and the Police in this district, from which there are crucial drug trafficking routes and where there are coca plantations, the plant whose leaves are the basis of cocaine production. Colombia is the country with the largest production of this substance in the world.

The current security crisis, the most serious in the country in the last decade, seems to delete the hopes of President Peter’s government that ELN, with whom they had resumed peace negotiations in the year, in 2022, would be dismantled and dissolved.

ELN’s attacks also put on a further harsh test the relationship between Social Democratic President Peter, the first leader of the Colombian state belonging to the Left, with Venezuela, who had already worsened after the re -election of his bond. The opposition and governments of other states are disputed.