Colombian authorities announced Monday’s arrest of more than 200 of its members Clan del Golfo, The largest drug cartel in the Latin American state, as Bogota accuses the organization of dozens of targeted murders of security forces lately.

At the end of April, President Gustavo Petros denounced the strategy ‘Systematic murder’ Members of security forces in the country, who knows the worst rise of the violence of the last decade.

Accused Clan del Golfo of being put into application what she called ‘Pistol Plan’according to the model of the drug baron Pablo Eskobar In the 1990 years – he offered a remuneration for every uniform he was murdered in his open war with the state.

During ‘coordinated’ reaction of the authorities, “217 members of this armed organization were arrested” Since April 15, the Admiral summarized during a press conference Franciscanhead of the Armed Forces.

The senior officer added that fifteen members of the drug gang were killed in security forces, while seized 6.8 tonnes of drugssomewhere one hundred weapons and 15,000 bullets and other types of ammunition.

Clan del Golfo’s attacks – born of the ashes of far -right paramilitary organizations after being supposed to have lifted weapons in the 2000 years – claimed life from mid -April to 16 police officers and 5 militarythe Admiral clarified.

Saw in these attacks ‘Reaction of despair’ after ‘decisive blows’ they managed to the cartel “recently” The army and police in areas of northern and western Colombia.

The organization characterized by the strongest cartel in the country with the largest production of cocaine in the world, Clan del Golfo, also known by other names, such as Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC), He insists that it is a political lineup, not a gang. Measures over 7,500 members.

Social Democrat Gustavos Petros, the first president of the country belonging to the Left, was elected in 2022 promising ‘Absolute Peace’ And he began talks with various organizations – anti -warriors, paramilitaries, drug traffickers – in the hope that the war would have ended through the negotiations for some six decades in Colombia.

But, one year and something before the end of his term, his government no longer holds talks except for only two of the five organizations of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who continued the armed action after the 2016 Peace Agreement, as well as the 2016 Peace Agreement.

Negotiations with the strongest organizations – Clan del Golfo, ELN, Central General Staff (EMC), the largest faction of former FARCs – have come to a dead end.