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Text of unattributed report: "All together" published by Colombian weekly Cambio web site on 3 June; subheading as published
On Sunday 18 May, the inhabitants of La Aguililla, Rionegro, La Chipa and Betania, municipalities in Caqueta Department controlled by the FARC [Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia], suspended their Mother's Day celebration. What they saw that day were flotillas of military helicopters, which looked like flocks of enormous birds, landing on the outskirts of the towns to unload soldiers, who later took over the streets.
At midday, behind the 650 men from the Special Forces Brigade, came officials of the DAS [Administrative Department of Security], the CTI [Technical Investigation Corps] of the Prosecutor-General's Office and prosecutors from the National Human Rights Unit.
Their mission was to capture the heads of the Teofilo Forero [mobile column], the FARC column with the greatest military capacity.
In La Aguililla, in the midst of the commotion and surprise, Araminta Burgos ran to her small store and looked inside the boxes of foodstuffs and bulk products that she hid under her bed for the rolls of bills that she zealously guarded.
Two soldiers surprised her there as she tried to hide the money in her clothes. Placed at the disposition of a prosecutor sent from Bogota, wads of money were discovered in her underwear and stuck to...