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AFEUR members. The Urban Counter-Terrorism Special Forces Group - Alpha, otherwise known as AFEUR or AFEAU (Spanish: Agrupación de Fuerzas Especiales Antiterroristas Urbanas) is the army detachment of the elite AFEAU special operations group within the Colombian Armed Forces, [1] dedicated to performing counter-terrorism operations, HVT acquisition or elimination, and hostage rescue.
Colombian National Police Special Operations Command (Spanish: Comando de Operaciones Especiales, COPES) is a subdivision of the Colombian National Police under the Directorate for Citizens Security. This Special Operations unit functions as a Quick reaction force (QRF) for Police operations and as a permanent training field for personnel.
According to Colombia's El Tiempo and W Radio, General Freddy Padilla de León, commander of the Colombian armed forces, denied the existence of any payment by the Colombian government. General Padilla argued that if any payment had been made, it would have been better to make it publicly known, to use it as an incentive and to cause confusion ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia's armed forces have restarted operations against leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said on Monday. The decision to ...
On June 10, at 5:30 p.m., President Álvaro Uribe gave the commander of the military forces, General Freddy Padilla de León, the go-ahead to deploy the troops and launch Operation Chameleon. The following day, some 300 special forces men were selected by the general and sent to the Joaquín París Battalion in San José del Guaviare. On ...
Pages in category "Special forces of Colombia" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
special-operations forces strategic formations and units of the armed forces, whose role is to conduct sabotage, reconnaissance, subversive and other special operations on the territory of foreign countries. In wartime they may also be assigned tasks such as intelligence-gathering, the seizure or destruction of key installations, the conduct of ...
Members of Colombia's security forces have been convicted over the years on a variety of corruption and human rights abuse charges. The country's six-decade internal conflict has killed more than ...