Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said his regime accepted a request to resume its role as guarantor of peace talks between Colombia’s government guerrilla group ELN. According to local media Colombian…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro authorized the suspension of arrest warrants against ELN commanders in order to facilitate peace talks with the guerrilla group. Petro announced the suspension of the arrest…
Colombia’s foreign minister and peace commissioner traveled to Cuba on Thursday to meet with ELN guerrillas over a possible resumption of suspended peace talks. Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva additionally met…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Monday that peace talks with guerrilla group ELN “are about to be resumed.” Before taking office on Sunday, the president had already said that he…
After 52 years of bloody armed conflict and three years of some secret and some informal negotiations, the Colombian state and the ELN, the country’s last-standing rebel group, have agreed…
Colombia’s longest-living guerrilla group ELN reiterated that the rebels want to resume peace talks after Sunday’s election victory of President-elect Gustavo Petro. In a press statement, the ELN reiterated that…
Guerilla group ELN denied involvement in the 2004 disappearance of the daughter of one of Colombia’s presidential candidates. The runner-up in the May 29 first round of elections, Rodolfo Hernandez,…
The ELN (National Liberation Army), is Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group. The group was originally formed as a Marxist-Leninist/Liberation Theology movement.
President Ivan Duque’s failed security policy has allowed Colombia’s illegal armed groups to grow significantly in the past four years, according to a report. Guerrilla and paramilitary groups have additionally…