Colombia suspends ceasefire with National Liberation Army [or ELN] rebels, in an about-face after the left-wing guerrilla group says it had not agreed to halt fighting
The Colombian government has said it was suspending a ceasefire it had announced with the National Liberation Army armed group, which denied agreeing to any such truce.
The government subsequently said the ceasefire, hailed by the international community, would be monitored by the United Nations, Colombia's human rights ombudsman and the Catholic Church. And on Wednesday, Interior Minister Alfonso Prada told reporters in Bogota that "we have decided to suspend the legal effects of the decree" in view of the ELN's stated position.
A first round of peace talks since Petro came to power in August as Colombia's first-ever leftist president, concluded in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 12 without a truce being agreed.Prada said the issue of a ceasefire will be taken up again in Mexico. This would be in exchange for "a surrender of assets, a dismantling of these organisations" and agreeing to stop their "illicit economies."
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