“We will only go down in history if we construct peace,” Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said on 20 August in his first official ceremony as commander-in-chief, at a military academy in Bogotá, to swear in the new military high command he appointed a week earlier. On the same day Petro suspended arrest warrants for the peace negotiators for the guerrilla group Ejército de Liberación Nacional (
ELN) as he seeks to revive talks abandoned by the previous government. They were ended after the ELN killed 22 cadets in a bomb attack in January 2019 on a police academy in Bogotá, where Petro swore in the new police high command on 19 August. End of preview - This article contains approximately 743 words.
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