Bogota, March 18 -- Colombian military authorities confirmed Monday that they have killed Santander Franco Jimenez, the leader of a criminal organization who was accused of planning an attack against President Gustavo Petro.
The 25-year-old is a veteran of the group called Gulf Clan and a close confidant of its top leader known as "Chiquito Malo," said Pedro Sanchez and General Luis Carlos Cordoba, Columbia's defence minister and commander of the Colombian Aerospace Force (FAC), at a press conference.
Jimenez was responsible for "numerous terrorist acts" against the public force and the civilian population and played a key role in coordinating activities related to drug trafficking and illicit economies on the Pacific coast, said the gen...