8 members of the powerful poster killed days after one of his main commanders murdered in Colombia

Eight members of the largest poster in Colombia have died in confrontations with security forces, said the army on Tuesday, the last of a series of raids against one of the most powerful criminal groups in Latin America.

Days after the death of a capo of the Gulf of the Superior Gulf, the army said he had killed several more of the members of the poster and took two captives during an operation in the northwest of the country. In a publication on social networks, the army said that he had also seized “abundant materials and war supplies.”

The Gulf Clan was born from right -wing paramilitary groups that fought against leftist guerrillas in the 1990s, before directing their attention to the Cocaine trade.

They are now a criminal power that earns money with drug trafficking, illegal gold mining, exituct and migrants smuggling through the northern border with Panama.

It is believed that the poster adds between 6,000 and 9,000 members, according to government estimates.

From the peace efforts stagnated, the Colombian government has launched a series of attacks against the group.

The Gulf Clan is one of the various posters recently designated as foreign terrorist groups by the United States. In 2022, the Gulf clan closed dozens of cities in northern Colombia for four days in reaction to its leader. extradited to the United States for trial.

On Saturday, the Police and the DEA killed alias “Chirimoya”, one of the five cartel commanders.

At the end of last month, Air Strikes killed nine presumed members of the poster.

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