Threats from guerrilla group the FARC shut down all transportation services in and around the municipality of Algeciras in the south-west Colombian Huila department, El Tiempo reports on Tuesday.
According to transport workers in the town, the FARC threat comes as a response to Sunday’s election of Juan Manuel Santos as Colombia’s next president.
Colombian authorities, meanwhile, are convening a meeting to discuss security measures, and have called on the people in the area to ignore the threat and carry on with their lives.
“We guarantee safe transit, we have all critical points fully covered, we have troops for all of the roadways, we will guarantee all of the security for the people to be able to go out and work,” said Commander Henry William Torres Escalante of the army’s 9th Brigade.
The department of Huila has been one of the areas of Colombia hardest hit by FARC guerrillas.