Fifty-three minutes after the death of the Colombian President, the first report on the incident appeared in the "Washington Post". Seven minutes later, Future Group's media, based on the first-hand information provided by Xin's embassy staff in Colombia, also quickly reported on the incident.
The content of the two reports was very different. The UA and Xin pointed fingers at each other, and their arguments were well-founded.
Those with a bit of foresight could already smell that something was amiss.
A public opinion war across the Pacific Ocean had quietly begun.
For the UA media's unwarranted speculation, Xin immediately said, "We are also victims, and we won't take the blame!"
However, the UA was not willing to lose out. Of course, it immediately said, "If you don't want to take the blame, don't blame it on us …"
Even though their mouths were unforgiving, the intelligence agents of the two countries did not stop.
The CIB first obtained authorization from the Colombian government and went to the scene to perjure evidence … oh no, to collect evidence. The Ghost Agents were not idle either. Although they did not obtain authorization from the Colombian government, they obviously did not intend to submit a written application.
New evidence kept emerging, and the cause of Juan's death became even more confusing.
Until three days later, the body of Agent Braddock was found by the Ghost Agents in an apartment not far from the scene of the incident, and the cause of death was confirmed to be starvation. In addition, the Ghost Agents also found API armor-piercing incendiary bullets suitable for the Barrett sniper rifle in this apartment. The same bullets were also found in the clock tower, and this was personally disclosed to the media by the CIB.
Who kidnapped the CIB agent was still a mystery.
However, it didn't matter. With the discovery of the crime tools and the missing CIB agent at the same time, the UA was gradually at a disadvantage in this public opinion war. Perhaps it wouldn't be long before the media under Future Group would be able to put the blame on the UA in front of the world's audience.
However, just as the war of words between Xin and the UA lasted for nearly a week, another major event that shocked the world happened.
After the ceasefire agreement in 2016, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which had been in hiding, suddenly updated a two-minute video on their official website.
At first, everyone thought that Ge Wu was advertising his drugs and hostages. However, after watching the video, everyone began to realize that it was not an advertisement at all. It was a declaration of war!
In the video, Timoshenko Timoshenko, the current leader of the Gowu Warriors, stood up.
The old man in his seventies was dressed in a military uniform with a cigar in his mouth and an AK-47 on his shoulder. Facing the eyes of the audience from all over the world, especially from the United States, he said arrogantly.
"Juan's death was a conspiracy by the CIA, a conspiracy by the Americans, a conspiracy from the evil capitalist world."
"I said a long time ago that Americans are unreliable. They are all liars and hypocrites. However, Mr. Juan obviously did not trust me. Very well, he has now paid a heavy price for his wrong choice. "
"The Colombian people will be truly free, and I will use action to prove that I am not joking."
With this sentence, Timochenko loaded the rifle, and the video ended.
To be honest, these words did make one's blood boil.
It was just that the words "freedom" and "democracy" felt strange coming from the mouth of a drug lord …
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This video was posted on the official website half an hour after FARC attacked the Pamplona area on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. At the most chaotic moment in Colombia, the cunning Timochenko declared an undeclared war on the government forces.
Pamplona was just a small town, but its geographical location determined its importance.
FARC's military forces were concentrated in the tropical jungles east of the Andes, and Pamplona was such a gateway connecting the east and west of the mountains. Not only that, north of Pamplona was Cucuta, the capital of the Colombian province of Santander, an economic town located on the border.
If Cucuta was controlled, FARC could receive a steady stream of support from Venezuela, and at the same time, the morale of the government forces would be severely damaged.
When guerrillas rushed out of the forest and the screech of mortars pierced the silent night sky, most civilians in Pamplona were still asleep. When the sound of cannons and the light of the explosion outside the window woke people up from their dreams, everyone almost unanimously thought that they were dreaming.
It was not until the guerrilla soldiers in digital camouflage jackets marched through the streets, the army green trucks drove one after another to the square in the center of the city, the broadcast of the propagandists rang through the streets and alleys of the town, and the masked soldiers went door to door to search for hidden government officials and soldiers, that everyone finally realized that the war had already broken out.
The FARC Fourth Mountain Brigade was responsible for the attack on Pamplona.
In less than a quarter of an hour, they disintegrated the temporary line of defense arranged by the local militia and police and controlled the entire area from the center of the town to the suburbs.
Half an hour after the outbreak of the war, the Colombian government forces also quickly responded. Two mechanized infantry brigades set off from the military base on the Colombia-Venezuela border and quickly rushed to Pamplona. At the same time, the UA military stationed at the Caramanga military base not far away also sent a reconnaissance company to the FARC-controlled area.
However, because Pamplona was located in the mountains, the terrain was rugged, the road conditions were poor, and it was late at night, the Colombian army itself was not well-trained. Even a group of drug lords could fight them evenly. When the two mechanized infantry brigades of the government forces arrived on the outskirts of Pamplona, it was already four hours later.
Four hours was enough for the rebels to do a lot of things.
Temporary bunkers had been built, and FARC hid military supplies in residential houses. At the same time, machine gun firing points were arranged along the buildings on the outskirts of the town.
Because the civilians in the town had not yet evacuated, the government forces could not use support firepower to bombard the rebels in Pamplona. Even the UA military planes only circled the area twice before flying away.
The two sides confronted each other in the suburbs for an hour. It was not until dawn that the senior government forces surrounding Pamplona received orders to launch an attack on Pamplona and crush the rebels.
However, when the armored vehicles of the government forces drove into the town, the soldiers of the government forces discovered that their nightmare had just begun.
The RPG's rocket launchers flew towards the armored vehicles as if they were free.
In order to win by any means necessary, these FARC people didn't have so many scruples. All kinds of mortars and rifle grenades were used, causing the Colombian soldiers to cover their heads and flee. The fierce street battle lasted for nearly two hours. After leaving hundreds of corpses and a large number of armored vehicle wreckage, the government forces with heavy casualties were forced to withdraw from the town.
The senior military officials called the Colombian Presidential Palace and asked the Presidential Palace to make a decision on whether to ask the UA for reinforcements or to use heavy firepower against the rebels in the town … In short, it was impossible to continue the current strategy. These FARC were obviously not a group of stragglers, but elites supported by foreign forces.
However, how could the Colombian government make a decision?
The president was dead, and the Congress was busy wrangling. How could they have the time to care about you?
Just as the two sides were in a stalemate in the Pamplona area, a small group of FARC guerrillas quietly moved out, opened a guerrilla front along the Andes, and rushed in the direction of the most prosperous west coast of Colombia …
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