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JPRS-TOT-94-002-L Document Type:JPRS Document Title:Terrorism
FOUO 12 January 1994 LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL AFFAIRS

Regional Guerrilla Report 5 Jan

PA0601171694 PA0601171694 Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on regional guerrilla activities and clashes with government military units monitored through 5 January. Source is cited in parentheses following each item.
Colombia
About 150 guerrillas dressed in military gear raided Carcasi, Santander Department, on 29 December using rockets, mortars, and long-range weapons to destroy the police post. One noncommissioned officer and 11 policemen resisted the attack for more than five hours. Three officers died and two were wounded. The guerrillas stole 20 million pesos from the local bank. (Santa Fe de Bogota Inravision Television Cadena 1 in Spanish 0000 GMT 31 Dec 93) About 150 guerrillas stormed into San Juan de la China, Ibague jurisdiction, and shot seven people in the head on 30 December. Five members of the same family were among the dead. (Santa Fe de Bogota Inravision Television Cadena 1 in Spanish 0130 GMT 2 Jan 94) The Simon Bolivar National Guerrilla Coordinating Board, CNGSB, attacked the Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, has ambushed a police patrol in Cauca Department. An ELN commando unit ambushed another police patrol in Turbo, Antioquia Department. In Currulao, Antioquia, the CNGSB and the Army clashed for several hours resulting in three guerrillas dead and two soldiers wounded. In Aguachica, Cesar Department, the Armed Forces killed two ELN members. (Hamburg DPA in Spanish 2118 GMT 2 Jan 94) A rebel commando unit raided Barrancabermeja and set an Ecopetrol, Colombian Petroleum Enterprise, bus on fire. (Santa Fe de Bogota Emisoras Caracol Network in Spanish 1200 GMT 3 Jan 94) The Army 3d Brigade continues its operations in Piendamo municipality, Cauca Department, where a Police patrol was ambushed. A noncommissioned officer and an agent died. Three others were wounded. (Santa Fe de Bogota Inravision Television Cadena 1 in Spanish 1730 GMT 3 Jan 94).
Nicaragua
Sandinist People's Army, EPS, forces clashed with several armed groups between 20 December 1993 and 2 January 1994. A military bulletin states that five individuals detonated three M-79 grenades at the Quilali baseball field. On 26 December, 15 people attacked the EPS post in San Bartolo and killed a civilian. In El Chipote Hill, near Quilali, the Army killed six rebels led by Pablo Tercero. (Managua Radio Nicaragua Network in Spanish 1100 GMT 4 Jan 94) The EPS reports that nine civilians and four rebels died in 11 clashes between the Army and rebel groups. Between 22 December 1993 and 3 January 1994, the Nicaraguan Army wounded 10 recontras and captured 16. During that same period, seven peasants were killed in Matagalpa, Jinotega, Esteli, Nueva Segovia, and Madriz. The Army sustained two casualties: one person died and another was missing in action. (Mexico City NOTIMEX in Spanish 1911 GMT 5 Jan 94)
Peru
Authorities said today that the Shining Path killed four peasant leaders in Puno. Orurillo Mayor Felix Mamani Miranda said subversives attacked the Quisuni cooperative and killed Orurillo authorities. Meanwhile, Shining Path members burned a public bus in Huaycan neighborhood in Lima. Huaycan was stormed by subversives resulting in the death of one person. (Mexico City NOTIMEX in Spanish 1605 GMT 3 Jan 94) The police force has reported that Shining Path attacked Acoria, Huancavelica Department, on 3 January and killed at least one person, wounded six, and caused considerable property damage. That night, one person was injured when he activated a mine while protecting a high-tension pylon in Chosica near Lima. (Paris AFP in Spanish 0123 GMT 4 Jan 94)