The guerrilla of National Liberation Army (ELN) This Tuesday he denied using boats for drug trafficking, in response to accusations from the United States Department of Warwho claimed to have killed three drug traffickers linked to that armed group.
“The National Liberation Army does not have and will not have any vessel linked to drug trafficking activities, neither in the Caribbean nor in any other sea, simply because it is prohibited for its militants and structures to get involved in any of the links of this phenomenon.“said the ELN central command in a statement.
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The US Government and Colombia are going through a diplomatic crisis derived from the “armed conflict“that the United States declared against drug trafficking, with at least seven recent bombings against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, near the Venezuelan coast.
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He Secretary of the United States Department of War, Pete Hegsethsaid on Sunday that, in one of those attacks, US forces killed three suspected drug traffickers, whom he linked to the ELN.
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The guerrilla assured that, to maintain “a critical stance and ethical coherence“, has been the subject of operations by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to link it with drug trafficking, but that these efforts “they have failed“.
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He President Gustavo Petro He added that the boat attacked belonged to a local family and not the ELN, and asked the Prosecutor’s Office of his country to act immediately after the death of fisherman Alejandro Carranza.
The Government and the ELN began peace talks in 2022 in Caracas, which have been suspended for a year due to the guerrilla’s lack of will, although Petro expressed last week his intention to reopen the talks to “taste peace“.
EFE
