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Colombia reinforces with more police officers in Cauca area

December 26 |

The Colombian government announced Sunday new measures to help control the security crisis in the Valle del Cauca region, including the dispatch of 130 additional police officers.

According to the Colombian Minister of Defense, Iván Velásquez Gómez, “50 intelligence and investigation police and another 80 specialists in special operations” will travel to the territory, the official said.

This dispatch responds to several episodes of violence that have hit Valle del Cauca in recent days, among them the murder of Eliécer Puyo Chocué, a member of the Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people, and the assassination of the current mayor of the municipality of Guachené, Elmer Abonia Rodríguez.

“The government’s security policy will be increasingly based on intelligence. All the weapons are filling at this moment the lack of thousands of men and women in training and intelligence activity up to the most complex aspects,” said the country’s president, Gustavo Petro in a message on the social network X.

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“The objective is to deactivate illicit economies and the armed organizations they sustain. Alongside major drug seizure operations, strengthening the intelligence of the security forces are the two pillars of our government’s security policy,” Petro added.

The president added that there must be a change, “the policy of repression” has to move to “the social policy of real transformation” of the territory, because without it, long-term security operations lose their “effectiveness”.

International

Zelenski urges global action after russian ballistic missile strike

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski called on the international community Thursday to “respond” to Russia’s ballistic missile strike on Ukraine, which he said has heightened the “escalation and brutality” of the conflict.

“The world must react. So far, there has been no strong response,” Zelenski lamented in a social media statement.

“We must act. We must pressure. We must push Russia towards real peace, which is only achievable through strength,” he added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Thursday that Russia had launched a new type of hypersonic ballistic missile against Ukraine in its “non-nuclear configuration.”

International

Elon Musk plans sweeping cuts to U.S. bureaucracy and spending

Elon Musk has pledged massive cuts to government programs, subsidies, and bureaucracy in his anticipated role as a “State Efficiency” leader, according to an article published Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.

The billionaire entrepreneur plans to target hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending, including funds for public broadcasting and Planned Parenthood. Musk called government bureaucracy an “existential threat” to American democracy.

Teaming up with fellow businessman and Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy, Musk aims to streamline federal regulations and implement significant administrative and cost reductions.

“We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as external volunteers, not federal officials or employees,” Musk and Ramaswamy stated in the article.

International

Putin warns of escalation, suggests strikes on western weapon suppliers

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the conflict in Ukraine is taking on the characteristics of a “global war,” warning that Russia might target Western nations supplying Ukraine with weapons used in attacks on Russian territory.

These remarks come after a day of heightened tensions, during which Russia launched a state-of-the-art medium-range missile designed to carry a nuclear warhead. However, this particular missile was loaded with conventional explosives.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the missile strike, calling it the action of a “deranged neighbor” using Ukraine as a “military testing ground.”

Earlier, Ukraine accused Russia of attacking the central-eastern city of Dnipro with a missile exhibiting “all the characteristics” of an intercontinental missile, an unprecedented development in the ongoing conflict.