Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced the suspension of peace talks with National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, accusing the group of committing war crimes in the Catatumbo region on ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday that he will declare ... Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of attacks in Colombia's Catatumbo ...

After being elected two years ago, President Gustavo Petro quickly launched peace talks with the ELN and several smaller armed groups under a policy known as total peace. But talks with ELN ...

This is the deepest crisis of the peace negotiations with the ELN since November 2022 and after President Gustavo Petro took power. Colombia on Wednesday suspended peace talks with the National ...

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday. The attack, which took place on Tuesday and is the most serious since a bilateral ceasefire between the government and the ELN ended in August ...

"The dialogue process with this group is suspended, the ELN has no will for peace," President Gustavo Petro said in a post on his X account on Friday. This is the second time in less than a year ...

President Gustavo Petro temporarily suspended the rule of law in response to an ELN offensive that has killed dozens and has displaced thousands in northwest Colombia since Friday. Petro announced the ...

known by its Spanish language acronym ELN. The move followed President Gustavo Petro’s decision on Friday to issue a decree giving him emergency powers to restore order in the affected region ...

Two years in, Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace ... In August, negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN)—the Petro government’s longest-lasting and most ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO: (Speaking Spanish). OTIS: During a recent visit to Catatumbo, he said that, "the ELN claims to follow Karl Marx, but it seems to me they ...