The 11th murder of 2026 in Algeciras, Huila, escalates a violent start to the year following a deadly 2025 with 26 killings. As detailed in this ongoing series, the latest victim—a young man on a motorcycle—was shot on a rural road, heightening community fears amid unresolved probes into prior homicides linked to armed groups like Farc dissidents.
The most recent homicide occurred on the road to La Arcadia sector, near the El Mesón school turnoff in San Antonio vereda. The victim rode a black CB-110 motorcycle without plates and died from head gunshot wounds. Found beside the road in blue jeans, black hoodie, rubber boots, and black cap, he remains unidentified per judicial sources.
This brings the 2026 total to 11 killings in Algeciras' first two-plus months, continuing the violence wave that began with the January 1 shooting of 17-year-old Juan David Barragán in urban Zona Rosa—as covered in the first report of this series—and echoed 2025's 26 homicides, many tied to Farc dissidents.
Subsequent cases include:
- February 23: Hugo Usme (‘Pata Limpia’) in La Florida garage.
- February 21: Merchant William Giraldo in La Florida.
- February 19: Edin Yeir Garzón Rodríguez en route to Líbano Occidente vereda.
- February 15: Jorge Iván Romero Camacho in Juan XXIII, after Bogotá return amid threats.
- January 23: Community leader Héctor Salazar Gaitán at Santuario vereda farm (Farc dissidents suspected).
- January 19: Edna Katerine Real Bastidas killed, husband Didier Andrés Cardozo injured in Alto Satías.
- January 17: Farmer Jesús Antonio García Mejía (26) near La Campiña home.
Local anxiety mounts as authorities report no unified motives or breakthroughs, prompting calls for enhanced state intervention.
