Colombia: OAS Says Armed Groups Occupying Land Abandoned by FARC

Nov 18, 2016 | Julián Villabona Galarza, PanAm Post
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Roberto Menéndez, head of the OAS Support Mission to the peace process in Colombia, sounded the alarm in an interview given to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, in which he alleges that several armed groups have taken advantage of the displacement of FARC soliders, in order to occupy key areas that the guerrillas abandoned. According to Menéndez, criminal gangs and other armed groups seek to occupy the lands left behind by the FARC, in order to expand drug routes or to seek illegal mines to exploit and profit from them, especially in the plains region of eastern Colombia.