{"id":165446,"date":"2020-07-16T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=165446"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:15:45","slug":"are-cartels-killing-people-for-breaking-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/are-cartels-killing-people-for-breaking-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Cartels Killing People For Breaking Lockdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It has been revealed that Columbine cartels have been enforcing \u201claws\u201d of their own, and hurting and even killing people breaking lockdown.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_165491\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165491\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165491\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/87834B0D-B673-4497-8789-50027AFD1997-300x189.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/87834B0D-B673-4497-8789-50027AFD1997-300x189.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/87834B0D-B673-4497-8789-50027AFD1997-600x378.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/87834B0D-B673-4497-8789-50027AFD1997.jpeg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A soldier in a hazmat suit.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reports show that Human Rights Watch have been alerted to the fact several people have been killed in recent weeks and months over their lack of respect for the lockdown rules in place, or, their public display of disagreeing with them.<\/p>\n<p>On the coasts particularly, gangs have started to make their own rules and laws, and activities such as fishing have been banned in some regions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for Human Rights Watch, said: &#8220;Draconian punishments imposed by armed groups to prevent the spread of Covid-19 mean that people in remote and impoverished communities across Colombia risk being attacked and even killed if they leave their homes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that these gangs are using the pandemic as an opportunity to gain power over the public, and enforce their own rules and laws; it\u2019s a power thing, basically. However he also said: &#8220;There is a genuine fear of an outbreak within their ranks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many of these gang members are involved in drug trafficking and other crime, but they aren\u2019t all necessarily from the same gangs and regions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A community leader in Putumayo said: &#8220;They have shut down transport between villages, and when someone is suspected to have Covid-19 they are told to leave the region or they will be killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;And people have no choice but to obey because they never see the government here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"css-14gsei8 container--next-up\" data-cypress=\"article-next-up\">\n<div class=\"css-b06fcq\">They are imposing these rules on many states in the country, and are doing so via word of mouth, whatsapp, and pamphlets. Currently, only those providing essential services to the communities are being allowed to leave their houses.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been revealed that Columbine cartels have been enforcing \u201claws\u201d of their own, and hurting and even killing people breaking lockdown.\u00a0 Reports show that Human Rights Watch have been alerted to the fact several people have been killed in recent weeks and months over their lack of respect for the lockdown rules in place,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":165491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1941,71,1295],"class_list":["post-165446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-columbia","tag-news","tag-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165492,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165446\/revisions\/165492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}