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Government bashed over Colombia's bloody local election race
by Adriaan Alsema September 18, 2019
The official in charge of protecting threatened persons told Colombia’s Congress on Tuesday he ran out of resources as senators blasted the government’s inaction over a spike in electoral violence.
Much of the congressmen’s fury was directed at Pablo Elias Gonzalez, the director of the National Protection Unit (UNP), after the murder of three mayoral candidates.
The escalating political violence ahead of the October 27 local elections followed the assassinations of many hundreds of community leaders and human rights defenders that followed a peace deal with FARC guerrillas in 2016.
Let middle management take the heat
Interior Minister Nancy Patrica Gutierrez and Defense Minister Guillermo Botero sat back while the UNP director took the punches for their failing security policy that is now affecting the political parties.
“On average there is one death threat a day and one assassination attempt every two days and a half,” Senator Jorge Londoño of the Green Alliance party said.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-bashed-over-bloody-local-election-race/