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Colombia’s armed forces deploy a special task force to reinforce troops in the Fusagasuga, Cundinamarca, a city 40 miles south of Bogota that is strategically important to the FARC guerrillas.
General Juan Pablo Amaya, commander of the army’s 13th Brigade, today deployed the Sumapaz Task Force to Fusagasuga, according to news website CM&.
The Sumapaz Task Force is a 500,000-strong military unit intended to combat rebel forces in the Sumapaz region.
Sumapaz was militarized in October 2009, with 1,900 troops stationed in the area after two local politicians were found murdered in a village 30 kilometers south of the capital.
The authorities blamed the FARC for the double homicide.
