Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC halted and burnt seven trucks
transporting goods from Buenaventura to Cali Friday, local police says.
The FARC, having started an offensive to disrupt commercial traffic in the southern half of Colombia, stopped the trucks twenty minutes outside Colombia’s biggest ports and set them on fire.
The drivers of the trucks got away unharmed, Highway Police commander Luis Antonio Montenegro told press.
Army troops, supported by the Colombian Air Force, took control over the area again, authorities say, but the Cali – Buenaventura highway, where approximately half of Colombia’s imports are transported, will be closed until further notice.
The FARC earlier imposed transport bans on the panamerican highway in the south west of Colombia and in the southern departments of Meta and Caquetá.
