Guerrillas ‘infiltrate’ Colombian universities

Bogota's Government Secretary Antonio Navarro Wolff said guerrilla groups are infiltrating Colombian universities, according to local media reports last week. Navarro's comments come after the death of a student in the central city of Tunja last week and the deaths of three youths in Bogota. Police said the students were killed by their own homemade bombs and influenced by guerrillas, writes Arron Daugherty for Colombia Reports.

Navarro told RCN Radio that “the events in Tunja and Bogota are related [...] There's something strange about what happened in Tunja, and I think the [students killed in Bogota] were making bombs for a protest in solidarity with the students of Tunja.”

The accusations of guerrilla infiltration come amid ongoing student protests over education reform. Reports stated Navarro said pamphlets belonging to Colombia's largest guerrilla group, the FARC, were found at the Bogota explosion site. Navarro said this indicated guerrilla groups were infiltrating student groups. But Navarro clarified that students were not forming urban guerrilla groups. “They are guerrilla sympathisers,” said the government secretary.
Full report on the Colombia Reports site