Overview
- Indigenous guard members located Quilcué and two escorts alive after several hours of detention, according to the defense minister.
- Her vehicle was intercepted around 1:30 p.m. local time in the páramo de Totoró on the Inzá–Totoró route, and later found abandoned by security forces.
- Quilcué said the men who seized them were heavily armed and offered no identification before taking them to an unknown location.
- Authorities and the Guardia Indígena coordinated the search, and investigators have not yet attributed responsibility to any armed group.
- The incident comes in a conflict zone where FARC dissidents and others operate, days after the ELN claimed an attack that killed two escorts of Senator Jairo Castellanos; Quilcué has reported repeated threats in the past.