However, the demand is considerable as the ELN partially depends on kidnapping and extortion, two practices the government demands an end to, for the financing of its armies. This means that if the ...

The leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels – already in peace negotiations with the government – are the largest of the armed groups. Of the ELN’s 5,850 members, 2,900 are combatants ...

Colombia's Office of the Attorney General has confirmed it would lift all arrest warrants on National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, following President Gustavo Petro's instructions. The head of ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said he is contemplating a new round of peace talks with the nation's largest remaining ...

which includes seeking peace through dialogue with the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels. Petro said this weekend in front of the new military high command, that troops must prepare to be an ...

National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels are demanding a $3 million ransom from his employers, the Texas oil firm Weatherford International. Negotiations are going nowhere and there is no end in ...

The ELN claims it is “convinced” of the “right [of the international ... reiterating President Santos’ desire to engage the rebels.

More than 1,000 members of the ELN alone are operating in Venezuela, Colombia's then-Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo told the Organization of American States in 2019. The rebels have ...

The announcement comes a day after Pastrana said he was suspending talks with the leftist group, known as ELN. He said the group has no desire for peace. The ELN statement said the group will wait ...

Colombian president Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a ...

He added that the ELN wants to keep talks in Cuba and Venezuela, but suggested that the Vatican could be a more suitable venue for negotiations. “I think this is the place, where we can recall ...