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Weekly Report - 18 February 2016 (WR-16-07)
COLOMBIA: ELN goes on the attack as peace talks founder
As fast as hopes grow for a peace deal with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), they are fading for a peace deal with Colombia’s second guerrilla group, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). Locked in an exploratory phase of talks with the government for over two years, the ELN, the more ideological of the two guerrilla groups, has been unable to agree on a structure for formal negotiations. This week it staged a three-day ‘armed strike’, which constitutes an enforced shutdown of economic activity and public transport in areas of ELN influence, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Camilo Torres, the guerrilla priest, on 15 February 1966. President Juan Manuel Santos warned the ELN on 12 February that it was seriously misguided if it thought that it could improve its negotiating position through a demonstration of force.
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