Honored: A soldier injured by a land mine marched in front of Gen. Freddy Padilla (l.) in a ceremony March 2. Guerrillas have escalated their use of the devices. Fernando Vergara/APFrom The Christian Science Monitor:
The embattled guerrillas are attacking urban areas that they had been pushed out of by a sustained military campaign under President Uribe.
BOGOTA, Colombia - The taps have run dry in the Colombian city of Villavicencio.
For more than a week, residents have been making do with buckets of water from trucks that circle the neighborhoods after the latest in a spate of urban bomb attacks that signal a shift in leftist guerrillas' strategy.
The flow of water to Villavicencio, a city of 300,000 on Colombia's eastern plains, was cut March 7 when three bombs tore through the main water line. Two days later, two policemen patrolling the water plant were severely injured by land mines.
The government offered a reward of $40,000 for information leading to the capture of those responsible. But Gen. Freddy Padilla, commander of Colombia's armed forces, says he has little doubt it was the guerrilla commander operating in that area who ordered the attack.
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My Comment: The FARC are losing this war. Their options are now limited to terror actions and operations.