Colombia government officials traveled to Venezuela’s capital Caracas for the formal start of peace talks with the “Segunda Marquetalia” guerrilla group. Peace Commissioner Otty Patiño and government negotiators arrived in…
Colombia’s peace commissioner and rearmed guerrilla chief “Ivan Marquez” announced new peace talks. In a press statement, Peace Commissioner Otty Patiño and Marquez’s group, Segunda Marquetalia, said that the peace…
Negotiators of Colombia’s government and ELN guerrillas successfully ended talks on the first of six points on the peace talks agenda. At a press conference in the Venezuelan capital Caracas,…
The “Comuneros del Sur” front that operates in southwest Colombia has broken ties with the ELN to pursue peace with the government of Gustavo Petro. In a video, a guerrilla…
Colombia’s longest-living rebel group ELN said Monday that they will resume kidnappings to sustain their guerrilla organization. In a statement, the rebels said the government failed to create a so-called…
The leaders of Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization asked President Gustavo Petro to suspend the warrants for their arrest in order to negotiate peace. In an open letter to the president,…
The government’s peace negotiators told Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro can’t negotiate peace with a dissident ELN front and their superiors at the same time. Petro’s decision to negotiate peace with…
Colombia’s chief prosecutor suspended the arrest warrants of nine commanders of the Segunda Marquetalia guerrilla group on Thursday. The move came a day after President Gustavo Petro granted the group…
Multiple regional divisions of the EMC split with the guerrilla organization in order to pursue peace talks with the government of President Gustavo Petro. The split could escalate violence in…