The armed strike restricts the population’s mobility for 72 hours, since doing so puts their safety at risk. The police reported the shooting death of an ambulance driver in the municipality of Puerto Santander, on the border with Venezuela
Colombian President Gustavo Petro raised his voice against the ELN guerrillas and ordered his armed forces to attack them, after this illegal group imposed a 72-hour armed strike on the population of areas where they exercise control.
The Colombian president ordered the armed forces to “attack” the ELN guerrilla that imposed an armed strike or confinement on the population of areas where they have a high presence, to supposedly “carry out military exercises.”
The armed strike restricts the population’s mobility for 72 hours, since doing so puts their safety at risk. Police reported the shooting death of an ambulance driver in the municipality of Puerto Santander, on the border with Venezuela.
According to this guerrilla group, considered the largest in America, this strike is taking place to carry out military exercises and prepare for the “threats of intervention” by US President Donald Trump, something that the Colombian president described as a lie and an excuse for drug trafficking.
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Petro wrote on the X network that he gave the order to “attack the ELN and defend the people of Colombia against any threat” and asked Colombians to leave “without fear.” “We will not allow ourselves to be threatened” by “traquetos (drug traffickers) dressed as revolutionaries.”
The army reported that it thwarted three attempts by the ELN to attack with explosives on roads in the departments of Norte de Santander (east) and Cauca (southwest).
The ELN, which was born in 1964 inspired by the Cuban revolution, has a presence in at least 20% of the more than 1,100 municipalities in Colombia, according to the Insight Crime study center.
Petro tried to negotiate peace with the rebels after coming to power in 2022, but the talks were unsuccessful. Last January the ELN murdered more than 100 people in a region bordering Venezuela, which burying the negotiations.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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