{"id":120624,"date":"2023-11-01T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=120624"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:19:00","slug":"inside-cartel-torn-ganglands-where-prem-star-luis-diazs-parents-were-snatched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/inside-cartel-torn-ganglands-where-prem-star-luis-diazs-parents-were-snatched\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside cartel-torn ganglands where Prem star Luis Diazs parents were snatched"},"content":{"rendered":"
The realities of life inside one of gang-ridden Colombia's most dangerous areas has been revealed, with abductions and cartel battles a common sight.<\/p>\n
La Guajira, part of the country's northern desert region, is the home of Liverpool star Luis Diaz, and is now the site of a huge search after his parents were abducted last week. The Colombian international's mother is now free but authorities have stepped up the search for his missing dad Luis Manuel Diaz, and have been carrying out aerial patrols across the Perija mountain range, which straddles the border with Venezuela and is covered by a forest.<\/p>\n
A reward of up to \u00a340,000 for information leading to the release or rescue of him has been offered, but so far the football remains in Liverpool awaiting news. However, the area has been described as a place where \u201cillegal coexists with legal\u201d by an expert in armed conflicts in La Guajira.<\/p>\n
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Speaking to BBC's Spanish news website, Luis Fernando Trejos said: \u201cIn La Guajira there has always been some type of illegal bonanza that has coexisted, in a normal way, with what is legal. To the humanitarian drama we must add the structural corruption that has generated a culture of deep-rooted illegality."<\/p>\n
\u201cColombia was the country in the world where the most kidnappings took place and that is why there is a certain normalizsation of the fact \u2013 all the illegal subsidiaries had a kidnapping industry."<\/p>\n
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