Colombia’s second largest city Medellin has become all but ungovernable after President Ivan Duque appointed an ally as interim mayor. In a letter, Medellin’s progressive secretaries rejected interim Mayor Juan…
The national government chief negotiator with Colombia’s ELN guerrillas, Juan Camilo Restrepo, announced to resign on Monday, six months after talks started in Quito, Ecuador. The businessman, former minister and…
Colombia’s government has warned the Marxist-inspired ELN guerrillas that current negotiations are their “last chance” amid a stalemate on the issue of a bilateral ceasefire. Government chief negotiator Juan Camilo…
Colombia’s government has said it is willing to a agree to a bilateral ceasefire with the ELN rebel group, but only if the guerrillas end, among others, extortion and kidnapping…
An attack by alleged ELN guerrillas on one of Colombia’s main oil pipelines, the Caño Limon-Coveñas, has contaminated the drinking water of some 1,000 people living near the pipeline. Colombia’s state oil…
Colombia’s government on Wednesday affirmed that it will not lift peace talks with Marxist ELN rebels, but urged the guerrillas to end attacks. The government’s chief negotiator, Juan Camilo Restrepo, clarified in an…
Colombia’s government peace negotiators on Monday slammed the Marxist-inspired ELN rebels for jeopardizing the ongoing peace process after they claimed responsibility for last week’s bombing outside a bull ring in…
Colombia’s chief peace negotiator for talks with the ELN proposed in a series of tweets that the country’s last standing rebel group declare a unilateral ceasefire over the holidays. The…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos appointed his former agriculture minister as the government’s chief negotiator in peace talks with the country’s second-largest rebel group, the ELN. Juan Camilo Restrepo, 70,…