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Weekly Report - 11 July 2013 (WR-13-27)
COLOMBIA: ELN gesture comes amid social unrest
The leader of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), Nicolás Rodríguez Bautista, alias “Gabino”, marked the 49th anniversary of the formation of Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group this week by calling for “urgent dialogue” with the government to bring about “a dignified and definitive peace”. As a token of goodwill it released a military hostage. President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed the development, although his government is presently more engaged in trying to end an outbreak of social unrest in the northern department of Norte de Santander, bordering Venezuela, which the interior minister Fernando Carrillo claims is being used by both the extreme Right and the extreme Left to “inflame and destabilise the country”.
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