Also during 1989 , the bombing of Avianca Flight 203 happened in Soacha , killing everyone on-board plus three Soacha residents . The bombing was planned by Cartel de Medellin leader Pablo Escobar , who intended to murder presidential candidate César Gaviria , who was supposed to be on board . Gaviria had decided not to fly and instead went on to become President of Colombia . In 2008 , the ' false positives ' scandal broke when 22 men from Soacha who had been recruited for work were found dead several hundreds of miles away . They had been killed by the military and presented to authorities as guerrilla fighters ( insurgents ) killed in battle , in order to increase action head counts . Similar cases have since appeared all over the country
Avianca Flight 203
Avianca Flight 203
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