2 social leaders linked to the government coalition are assassinated in Colombia

In the last 72 hours, unknown persons assassinated two Colombian social leaders who were linked to the leftist Pacto Histórico, the government coalition of President Gustavo Petro, in the department of Bolívar (north), members of that group reported this Sunday.

The president of Congress, Roy Barreras, denounced that Juan Navarro, leader of the Historical Pact in the Caribbean municipality of Magangué, was assassinated on Saturday night.

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“ANDhe murder of Juan Navarro Manjarrez, leader of the Historical Pact in Magangué, demands the capture of the masterminds and the identification of the successor groups of paramilitaries that are assassinating social leaders and that can send messages of peace during the day and continue killing at night.” Barreras said on Twitter.

The municipal table of the Historical Pact in Magangué, meanwhile, detailed that the social leader was assassinated on Saturday night in that town in the department of Bolívar.

Likewise, Luis Peña, who was part of the Historic Pact campaign in Magangué and ran for the Magangué municipal council in 2012, was assassinated on Wednesday night by hit men who shot him in front of his house in Magangué.

Senator María José Pizarro, one of the leaders of the Historical Pact, rejected “the persecution and assassination of leaders” of that coalition.

“All my solidarity with the families of Juan Navarro and Luis Peña. These facts require the necessary investigations and arrests, ”wrote the congresswoman on Twitter, where she added:“ That fighting corruption and promoting change does not cost us our lives ”.

Faced with this situation, the Prosecutor’s Office “prioritized investigations into the homicide of two social leaders of the Historical Pact that occurred recently in Bolívar.”

The Colombian Ombudsman’s Office reported on Wednesday 199 murders of social leaders from January to November 30 of this year, which is “the highest number” since 2016, when this State institution began to keep records.

This number even exceeds the figures for all of 2021, when 145 human rights defenders were killed, and those of previous years, including 2020, which was the deadliest year for leaders and there were 182 murders.

Source: Elcomercio

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