Army destroys illegal mining machinery in Magüí Payán operation against Walter Mendoza financing

The Colombian Army said its Fuerza de Tarea Hércules destroyed illegal mining machinery in Magüí Payán, Nariño, in an operation aimed at the finances of the Walter Mendoza structure of the Coordinadora Nacional Ejército Bolivariano. The development matters because it ties military pressure in Nariño to revenue denial, not only territorial control or combat contact. In the Pacific corridor, repeatable disruption of armed-group income is a near-term test of whether the state can weaken local coercive governance rather than temporarily displace it.