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The communication was published by the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (Cric) regarding manipulated information that circulated massively on social networks, and that linked the indigenous minga with a military operation against drug trafficking in the south of the country.
“Since last Monday, October 19, a false news has circulated ensuring that the National Army destroyed 63 cocaine production laboratories in Cauca and Caquetá, while indigenous, Afro communities and other social organizations were mobilizing …”, explained the Cric in the newsletter, dated October 23rd.
The news to which the Cric refers was announced by General Jorge Luis Ramírez, director of Anti-narcotics of the Police, who confirmed the destruction of the 63 rustic laboratories and the seizure of supplies to process coca base, but At no time did he mention the indigenous communities or link the operation to the minga marches.
An operational component of @AntiNarPolice achieved the destruction of 63 rustic laboratories to process coca base in #Cauca Y #Caquetá. Each had the capacity to produce a monthly ton of the alkaloid. The criminal economy was affected by more than $ 1.6 billion. pic.twitter.com/uxIPwCxbMa
– General Oscar Atehortua D (@DirectorPolicia) October 18, 2020
But there was someone who did, and who, in addition, manipulated the information by saying that that operation was the “explanation of why the minga returns to Cauca and there are only a few left in Bogotá for the strike on 21.”
“Bravo, President Duque and military forces, the ‘narcominga’ was uncovered,” reads a Facebook post that also circulated on WhatsApp chains.
As that information went viral and thousands of people shared it without taking the time to verify the sources, the La Silla Vacía portal undertook the task of verify the data with the lie detector and found that the publication is misleading “because it mixes true data with false information.”
“Contrary to what the chain says, the same Police say that the laboratories belong to the ‘Carolina Ramírez’ structure, of the Farc (sic) dissidents, which operates in southern Putumayo but there are indications that it is entering the south of Caquetá ”, explained that medium.
The Colombiacheck portal also verified similar but much more compromising information, as it ensured that the Army had entered those territories taking advantage of the fact that the minga was heading towards Bogotá.
“At Colombiacheck we verified this information and found that it is false that the anti-narcotics police operations are related to the indigenous minga. In addition, the area in which they were carried out does not belong to “indigenous control,” as they claim, “he said.
In the verification and tracking of the publications made by that medium, it detected that the false information had at the end “a link to a note from El Espectador”, as if to give more credibility to the ‘fake news’, and that when entering it was actually the real news but the capital media “does not mention any data that relates this operation to the indigenous communities or the minga.”
Colombiacheck made a list of media that shared this manipulated news and names, for example, the “Polítika portal (as the origin of disinformation), to the Vox Colombia page, MCN page, Resistance Civil group […] and Leonardo Cuervo, a former police officer who became a ‘youtuber’”.
As for Twitter, we found that El Expediente trilled: “Fact: The indigenous minga returns to their places of origin after the @COL_EJERCITO destroyed 63 cocaine laboratories in Cauca. A coup by @IvanDuque and @CarlosHolmesTru to these drug trafficking structures “, a message that was” retweeted by the director of the portal. “
All this chain of disinformation was what led the Cric to speak out furiously against the media, and for that reason it pointed out that they were “at the service of the state” to delegitimize the minga.
The Police once again uploaded a video about the operation and the indigenous communities are not mentioned there either.
This was our operation Resplandor II, which allowed the destruction of 63 laboratories for the processing of cocaine base in #Cauca Y #Caqueta. We will continue to deliver strong results against drug trafficking. #We areOneWe areAll pic.twitter.com/SKDp4lQ1fl
– Anti-narcotics Police (@PoliciaAntiNar) October 22, 2020
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