'Sinaloa Cartel' claims responsibility for attempted massacre on native Colombians

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema August 11, 2019

A group claiming to be Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel claimed responsibility for the attempted massacre of a group of native Colombians in the southwest of the country on Saturday.

The attack cost three lives and injured seven members of the Nasa community in Caloto, Cauca, where just last month six native Colombians have been murdered, 15 survived assassination attempts and communities received as many as 30 death threats.

The attack came less than 24 hours after national indigenous organization ONIC declared a humanitarian emergency over an escalating wave of violence targeting indigenous people throughout Colombia.

In the last year, the indigenous peoples of Colombia have been subjected to serious violations of human rights and peoples’ rights; 97 indigenous people have been assassinated.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/sinaloa-cartel-claims-responsibility-for-attempted-massacre-on-native-colombians/

~ ~ ~

This genocidal action exactly bears the characteristics of the very same thing which has been happening in Colombia for decades as part of the "social cleansing" conducted by the death squads, (paramilitaries) often directly connected to the military, in Colombia.

If the result is that the indigenous people are eliminated, the state takes the land and sells or gives it to private owners or business interests, and it has been happening for far longer than we have ever heard of the Sinaloa Cartel, from Mexico, it's obvious the same guys did it who have always done it. Pretending it was the Mexicans won't fool people familiar with their habits.