Ecuador Military involved in clash with subversives on border with Colombia

Posted on October 21, 2012 • Filed under: Border Issues, Colombia, Ecuador, Police/Military Activity

Eluniverso.com reported that Ecuador’s armed forces said Saturday the arrest of five people, one of them wounded, supposedly subversive, in a section of the Amazon frontier with Colombia, after a confrontation. The event, according to a statement released by the military, occurred at noon in the area of ​​the board, about 30 kilometers from Puerto El Carmen, in Sucumbios province, which borders the Colombian department of Putumayo. The injured man was treated at a hospital in Puerto El Carmen, where the other four detainees have been released on the orders of the authorities concerned, the report issued by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Read Article

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