Three other young people escape and authorities offer 100 million pesos as a reward for the whereabouts of the ‘Los Caparros’ recruiters

As aliases ‘Yoiner’ and aliases ‘Orejas’ were identified the two members of the Colombian narco-paramilitary organized armed group ‘Los Caparros’, who are accused of having forcibly disappeared six young Caldenses who intended to travel by land to Cartagena to learn about the sea.

In that sense, on the afternoon of Friday, March 19, the director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, announced the reward of up to 100 million pesos for the capture of the criminals identified as having kidnapped citizens from Anserma, Caldas.

For General Vargas, there is an expectation that the inhabitants, in exchange for the millionaire reward, will provide information about the captors of the young people, belonging to ‘Los Caparros’ and who commit crimes in Bajo Cauca and in the south of Córdoba.

On the other hand, three of the young people who remained deprived of their liberty managed to escape and were located on a farm in the rural area of ​​Tarazá, in lower Cauca in Antioquia.

Through her Twitter account, Juliette de Rivero, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Colombia, announced that of all the abducted citizens, three of them are still missing, identified as José, Sebastián and Darwin. Thus, he sent a message to the criminal group that has them captured so that they can be released as a humanitarian gesture.

From the Agamemnon Campaign in Necoclí, four officials traveled to Bajo Cauca to support Operation Aquiles in this investigation, in addition, together with the Air Force, they are trying to locate the young people.

One of the six minors recruited escaped

Emanuel Aguirre Villada, one of the young Caldenses who would have been recruited by ‘Los Caparros’, escaped from his captors. The young man managed to get rid of the criminals on a farm in Bajo Cauca and then set out on a path that led him to the town of La Caucana de Tarazá where he asked for help from the Police to be protected. The events occurred at dawn on Thursday, March 18.

The 17-year-old minor is part of the six young people recruited by this group since last February 25 and who had already abandoned Mauricio Ramírez on a farm, apparently because his back problems did not make him efficient to endure the work, confirmed to Blu Radio. For now Emanuel will be transferred to the municipality of Anserma, Caldas, to be delivered to his parents.

According to his version, he and his companions were in a truck bound for Cartagena to see the sea, but they were lowered from said car to be recruited. In fact, this version is corroborated by Mauricio himself on the station where he stated that they were approached when they stopped at a gas station. There they were taken to a farm, according to the 21-year-old, with small arms, not rifles.

Ramírez said that he had to feed some animals and that they told him that they would pay him to do it, he was there for 12 days and that they never treated him badly. On the other hand, the other four young people identified as José David Valencia Ramírez, Cristian Luna Valencia, Andrés Fernando Valencia and Cristian Daniel Rendón Cardona, would continue to be kidnapped by Los Caparros.

Two of them managed to call their loved ones to notify them that they were “retired.” This was expressed by Milena Ramírez, mother of José David Valencia, 15 years old and sister of Mauricio Ramírez, 21 years old, who assured that on Friday, February 26, she received a call from him informing her that they were in the municipality of Valdivia, north of the department. of Antioquia.

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