The meeting between Colombian officials and the ELN took place at the Humboldt Hotel, in El Ávila, a difficult-to-reach area north of Caracas that is guarded by the National Armed Forces (FAN). “Count on us for total peace,” Maduro said
President Nicolás Maduro celebrated that representatives of the Colombian government and the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) have sat down to talk in Caracas to restart the peace negotiation process.
“They have sat down to negotiate a peace agreement and from Venezuela we tell them: All the support of the people of Venezuela for the peace negotiations. Count on us for total peace,” he said. Ripe during a meeting with young people in Miraflores to celebrate the Day of the Venezuelan Student.
The meeting between officials Colombia and the ELN took place at the Humboldt Hotelin El Ávila, an area of difficult access to the north of Caracas that is guarded by the National Armed Forces (FAN).
Social leaders, ex-military, senators and trade union representatives make up the Colombian government’s peace negotiating team with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla.
The Government will be represented by a group made up of people very close to President Gustavo Petro, such as Senators Iván Cepeda and María José Pizarro, as well as others from opposite ideological sides, such as the representative of the ranchers José Félix Lafaurie, linked to Uribismo.
The peace negotiations with the ELN, which began in 2017 in Quito (Ecuador) and Havana (Cuba), during the government of then President Juan Manuel Santos, were suspended in 2018 by his successor, Iván Duque, and were resumed in Caracas by decision of the current president, Gustavo Petro.
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