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Andean Group - July 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
SECURITY: ELN steps up violence campaign following end of electoral ceasefire
After observing a self-imposed ceasefire for the first part of the presidential election campaign period, Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, the Ejército de Liberación Nacioinal (ELN), wasted little time in resuming its attacks on the country’s infrastructure and the general population. That President Juan Manuel Santos won re-election on the back of his promise to continue negotiating and secure a peace deal with the guerrillas in a second term appears to have prompted the ELN to intensify its violence campaign as a way of strengthening its negotiating position.
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