The National Liberation Army Guerrillas (ELN) announced on Wednesday a 48 -hour armed unemployment in the department of Chocó from next July 25by the “serious humanitarian situation“And the alleged advance of”State terrorism“In the region.
“To make visible the serious humanitarian situation, we decree an armed 48 -hour strike throughout the Chocó department from 00:00 on July 25, 2025“said in a statement the Western War Front Ogli Padilla.
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This is the third armed strike imposed by the ELN so far this year in this department, where that guerrillas alleges that there is a Alleged alliance between military and paramilitaries of the Gulf Clan, the main criminal band of Colombia.
In armed strikes, this illegal armed group usually restricts the Vehicle displacement by roads and rivers, the mobility of people and even orders the closure of shopsin addition to committing aggressions and threatening anyone who does not meet these restrictions.
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Supposed abuses of public force
“To the general population, public or cargo transporters who travel through rivers or roads, abstain to mobilize, avoid any incident, our units will be present in the mobility corridors to comply with said order“The ELN said in the statement.
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The guerrillas, one of the main causes of violence in Chocó, alleges that the measure obeys “One of the greatest paramilitary attacks of recent times in collusion with the public force, which aims to destroy the social fabric, which resists and opposes the extractivist model that intends at all costs to loot natural resources“From the area.
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The group said that members of the National Army entered last Sunday in the Chiriquí Community, in the municipality of Llorówhere supposedly “They kidnapped twelve non -combatant people, four Afro -descendants and eight indigenous people, including a sixteen -year -old boy and a eighteen -month -old boy“
The next day, the message continued, these same military units allegedly retained a man who “He was tortured and injured in one leg“
Petro and “Total Peace”
One of the great campaign promises of President Gustavo Petrowho during his youth was militant of the guerrillas of April 19 Movement (M-19) And he assumed power in August 2022, was to carry out the policy of “Total peace“With armed groups.
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With this policy, Petro sought to negotiate an agreement with the ELN and the dissidents of the FARC, in addition to subjecting justice to criminal groups such as the Gulf clan.
However, The president himself recognized last Sunday, in a speech in the installation of the new legislative period of Congress, that peace remains a debt of his government.
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International organizations have warned in recent years the deterioration of the armed conflict in Colombia, which according to the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) He reached in 2024 his most critical point since the signing of the Government’s Peace Agreement with the former Farc in 2016.
After sanctioning the law of “Total peace“, in December 2022, The Petro government decreed several bilateral fires with large illegal groups, including Eln.
But the cessation with this guerrillas beat on August 3, 2024 and has not been extended. The armed group imposed as one of the conditions that the Government removed from the list of organized armed groups (GAO) to resume the truce.
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