For a number of months, our bodies wrapped in plastic, some dismembered, have appeared on the streets of Colombia's capital Bogota — grim proof of an escalating vendetta between rival Venezuelan gangs.
Not even the bombings by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, or the murderous actions of leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries, have generated as a lot terror because the "packaged" corpses.
Since January, 23 our bodies wrapped in plastic have been discovered deserted within the metropolis.
These are "violent murders by strangulation, firearms or additionally with knives and a number of cruelty," safety minister Anibal Fernandez de Soto advised AFP.
The bloody path has reached eight of the 19 districts in a metropolis that, whereas beset with organized crime, has been spared the worst of Colombia's a long time of violent battle.
It's the dismembering that has most shocked residents.
The Tren de Aragua and Los Maracuchos gangs that have been shaped in Venezuela, and a 3rd as but unconfirmed group, are accountable.
"These 23 horrible instances that we've seen, of murders the place the our bodies have been present in baggage, are associated to a dispute between felony teams which might be preventing for management of illicit revenues," stated Fernandez de Soto.