Overview

• Prosecutors presented Walter Esteban Yonda Ipía and Carlos Steven Obando to a judge and charged them with aggravated homicide and related crimes over the truck bomb near Cali’s Marco Fidel Suárez aviation school that killed six civilians and injured 79.
• President Gustavo Petro announced the arrest of a third suspect, Diomar Mancilla, identified with the EMC’s Jaime Martínez column and alleged to have taken part in the Cali attack.
• Police detained Luis Hernando Vera Fernández, alias “Mono Luis,” in El Peñón, Cundinamarca, describing him as the trusted logistics and finance operator for EMC leader Iván Mordisco.
• Authorities say FARC dissidents were behind the Antioquia strike that brought down a police helicopter and killed 13 officers, with Petro sharing evidence that explosives were pre‑positioned at the landing site.
• Petro launched Operación Sultana and signaled plans to label implicated groups terrorist organizations, as Iván Mordisco remains at large with a government reward in place and issued a statement vowing not to surrender.