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Weekly Report - 7 March 2006
COLOMBIA: ELN announces truce as Uribe loses ground
The good news for President Alvaro Uribe in the week in which he formally registered his candidacy for re-election was that the guerrillas of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) have announced their first-ever unilateral truce to last until after the congressional elections. But there was bad news as well: his government had to admit that some demobilised paramilitary fighters have been returning to crime, and an important opinion poll showed a continuing decline in voter support for
Uribe.
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