BOGOTA, Feb 8, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday that the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was the "head of the ELN" guerrilla group whose recent turf war over trafficking ...

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A Colombian official says more than 80 people have been killed in the country’s northeast region following failed attempts by the government to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army.

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia on Friday suspended for second time in less than a year peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group of the violence that has ...

BOGOTA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended peace talks with the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) on Friday, after accusing the group of committing a war crime in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia on Friday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, for a second time in less than a year after blaming the rebel group for recent violence in ...

Gustavo Aníbal Giraldo, third in command of the armed group, is accused of being the architect of the attacks in Catatumbo, ...

As violence continued to escalate in Colombia, the Catholic Church offered shelter and relief aid to displaced families, as ...

A series of attacks against civilians has forced Colombia's government to break off peace talks with one of Colombia’s largest rebel groups as fears mount that fighting between rebel groups in the ...

The Cuban government firmly denied on Friday any presence of the National Liberation Army (ELN) on its soil, asserting that ...