Escaped ELN leader allegedly recaptured
Authorities in Venezuela have captured a man strongly resembling the ELN guerrilla ‘Pablito’ who escaped from a Colombian prison last week, claimed the Commander of Colombia’s Military Forces. The Commander,…
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Reward offered for info on escaped rebel
Colombian authorities offer a US$900 thousand reward for information that leads to the arrest of Gustavo Anibal ‘Pablito’ Giraldo, the ELN guerrilla commander who escaped from custody on Wednesday. Colombian…
ELN guerrilla escapes from jail
An ELN guerrilla commander escaped from a prison in the Colombian department of Arauca at around 11.30AM on Wednesday. According to news station Caracol, the escaped guerrilla is Gustavo Anibal…
Colombian Court denies US extradition of ELN chief
Colombian Supreme Court on Thursday denied a US request to extradite a guerrilla commander who had kidnapped two Americans and a Brit in the east of Colombia, newspaper El Espectador…
Guerrilla attack leaves 7 Arauca municipalities without power
An attack by guerrillas of the FARC left a number of villages in the east Colombian Arauca department without electricity. The attack took place Tuesday in La Cabuya and damaged…
ELN website runs comfortably on Dutch server
Despite being regarded a terrorist organization by the European Union, the website of Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group ELN runs comfortably on a server in the capital of the Netherlands,…
Authorities seize half a ton of explosives from ELN
Colombian authorities Friday found 550 kilos of explosives and other materials for preparing bombs in three abandoned camps of the ELN in the Casanare department. “We seized 12 packages of…
ELN guerrillas desert rebel ranks
Eleven guerrillas of the ELN deserted Colombia’s second largest rebel group in the south of the country, the army announced Sunday. According to army sources, three small groups deserted the…
ELN wants to join forces with FARC to avoid ‘imperialist invasion’
Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group ELN asked the country’s largest rebel group FARC to join forces to avoid a U.S. “invasion” into Venezuela. The rebels published an open letter to…