Earlier on Monday Mr Petro had warned that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of attacks in ...
Colombia’s armed forces are among the most powerful and professional in the region, but fighting in the South American jungles far from the center of state power in Bogotá is deadly for even ...
The truce was also, in part, the result of a coca crisis across several regions of Colombia. An oversupply of the crop, and a shortage of international buyers, caused the price of the coca paste ...
On Friday, Mr Petro suspended negotiations with the rebels after violence escalated in Catatumbo, a mountainous region that produces around 15% of Colombia’s coca crop and is located along the ...