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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Colombia reactivates arrest orders for top rebels blamed for deadly violence in cocaine turf war

Colombia Rebel Fighting - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Colombia's government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation's largest rebel group following attacks on civilians as part of a deadly turf war with dissident guerrillas from another armed group for control of a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela.

President Gustavo Petro’s leftist government in 2022 suspended warrants against top commanders of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, as part of an effort to coax the 60-year-old insurgency into a peace deal.

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