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The wounded canine's actions saved the lives of dozens of soldiers and civilians in the area, Colombia's army said.
Colombia's military says that rebels in northeastern Colombia used a drone to attack a military patrol in a rural area, killing three soldiers and injuring eight.
The Colombian government and the ELN have been engaged in peace negotiations since at least 2012, but the six-month ceasefire agreed on Friday is the longest agreed upon since the guerrilla group ...
The ELN is Colombia's oldest remaining rebel group, and the talks are the cornerstone of efforts by Petro - himself once a member of the now-demobilized M-19 insurgents - to negotiate peace or ...
Carbonell, the ELN negotiator, told Al Jazeera, “It’s an issue that’s being worked on.” “You can never really say that a given situation is not going to happen,” Carbonell said.
The ELN, which has some 2,400 fighters, began peace talks with the previous government of former President Juan Manuel Santos, but negotiations fell apart after a car bombing in Bogota, while ...
For one, the ELN is calling for the entire process, including the buildup to actual talks, to be made open to the public. Unlike the FARC peace talks, which the document claims have been ...
ELN leader García wrote that public funding for the cease-fire should be “linked” to the suspension of kidnappings. “Peace is not designed for just one side to win,” he wrote.
The ELN’s Golden Era Between 1994 and 2010, three different Colombian presidents tried to negotiate with the ELN: Ernesto Samper, Andrés Pastrana, and Álvaro Uribe. During the Samper administration ...
Since launching the Project Portal in 2019, the Experiential Learning Network has engaged over 1,000 UB undergraduate students in mentored projects and digital badges—over 700 students last year alone ...
The ELN has been in gradual decline since its peak in 1999 when it numbered 4,000 fighters and was able to kidnap people from airplanes, boats, vehicles and homes, across Colombia. While the Farc ...