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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
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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)