Overview

• Government envoys met dissident delegates in the Valle del Yarí to gather input for a seventh cycle of negotiations.
• The dissident column led by alias Calarcá is the faction engaging with Bogotá, yet negotiators reported no concrete advances.
• Hours after the Antioquia fighting, a group under alias Iván Mordisco detonated a truck bomb in Cali that killed six people and injured more than 60.
• Opposition figures and local officials condemned the meeting, with Antioquia governor Andrés Julián Rendón criticizing talks so soon after the police deaths.
• Authorities deployed a special security operation in Cali and pledged to protect the population from terrorism and crime.