U.S. troops on Monday began a medical mission to San Vicente del Caguan, a city in the guerrilla-dominated Caqueta department in southern Colombia.
According to newspaper La Nacion, the humanitarian mission, backed by the United States’ Southern Command, is dubbed “Compromiso Colombia 2010,” and is intended to help some 3,500 people in need of medical assistance in San Vicente del Caguan and La Macarena, Meta, just north of Caqueta.
The mission offers free health care services to inhabitants of the region, which until recently had been FARC territory for decades.