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Colombia, ELN rebels start peace talks, hoping to end six decades of war

Negotiators from the Colombian government and leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) began peace talks on Monday, the first major step in President Gustavo Petro's efforts to end nearly 60 years of war.

Reuters

Colombian government, guerrilla group resume peace talks

The Colombian government and the South American country’s largest remaining guerrilla group are set to resume peace negotiations, breaking a roughly four-year hiatus during which the rebels have expanded the territory where they operate

The Independent UK

Edinburgh shopping centre to get plush new café dubbed 'world's most Instagrammable'

The plush café chain, who were only founded five years ago yet own branches all over the world, are to take up residence at St James Quarter just in time for the festivities

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro: ‘The war on drugs was a failure’

The war against drugs has killed more than a million people in Latin America without denting the power of drug trafficking mafias, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro tells FRANCE 24 and RFI in a wide-ranging interview that also touches on the war in Ukraine, the climate emergency and the tentative peace…

France 24

Colombia's President promises to deepen ties with Venezuela

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela have met and say they will improve trade and security cooperation, as both countries seek to normalize relations following the election of Colombia’s first leftist leader

The Independent UK

Support for Venezuela's opposition is dwindling at OAS

Venezuela’s opposition has suffered a rebuff as 19 members of the Organization of American States backed a proposal to remove its envoy from the regional forum for political and economic issues

The Independent UK

Colombia and ELN rebels to restart peace talks

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018

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Colombia's government, ELN rebel group to reestablish peace talks

Colombia's government and left-wing rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) will reestablish peace talks next month, both parties said on Tuesday during a press conference in Venezuela's capital Caracas.

Reuters

Colombia ELN rebel group peace talks delegation set for Caracas

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Reuters

Colombia peace process must solve causes of conflict - ELN rebel commander

The top commander of Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group, which is exploring a resumption of peace talks with the leftist government, told Reuters any process must seek profound change for all of society and not political power for a few guerrilla commanders.

Reuters

Colombia´s ELN rebel group favors bilateral ceasefire if peace talks resume

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‘I live in fear’: can Colombia’s new president ease violence at the border?

As armed groups prosper, local residents put hopes Gustavo Petro’s pledge to normalise relations with Venezuela

The Guardian - US

Colombia suspends ELN rebel arrest warrants, extradition orders to restart peace talks

Colombia's new president said Saturday he was suspending arrest warrants and extradition requests for members of the left-wing guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) in an effort to restart peace talks to end nearly 60 years of war.

Reuters

Afro-Colombians helped install a new government in Bogotá. Will it address their needs?

Despite launching several initiatives, the Pacific coast region suffers from lack of basic services and is in the grips of violence

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Colombian government and ELN rebels meet in Havana to restart peace talks

Government pledges ‘judicial and political steps’ to enable talks to resume with nation’s last guerrillas broken off three years ago

The Independent UK

Colombia and ELN rebels begin moving to restart peace talks

Colombia’s new government and members of the nation's last guerrilla group are moving toward restarting peace talks that were suspended three years ago in Cuba

Reuters

Colombia says ELN rebels to take steps to restart peace talks

Colombia's ELN guerrilla group will take the necessary steps to restart peace talks, the new government's peace commissioner said on Friday.

Reuters

Colombia advances towards restarting peace talks with ELN

Colombia hopes to restart peace talks with leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Cuba, the country's Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva said in the Cuban capital, Havana, on Thursday.

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Colombia ELN rebel group open to peace talks with next president Gustavo Petro

Colombian leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) is open to advancing peace talks with the incoming government of President-elect Gustavo Petro, it said on Monday, and called for reforms to tackle social exclusion and inequality.

Reuters

Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president

Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement, who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia's presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country's history.

Reuters

Colombia outsider candidate Hernandez may weaken leftist Petro's rebel status

Colombian leftist Gustavo Petro leads the race for the country's presidency ahead of a second round of voting, having inspired his supporters to imagine a more equitable, greener country, they say.

WEKU

A leftist will face a businessman as Colombia's presidential race heads to a runoff

The results represent a major shift in the Latin American country's presidential politics that conservatives and moderates had long dominated.

France 24

Colombia presidential election: Leftist Petro and populist Hernandez headed for run-off

The early vote count in Sunday’s six-way presidential election in Colombia pointed toward a run-off in June, with leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro leading in a ballot held amid growing discontent over increasing inequality and inflation.

The Independent UK

Colombians to vote for president amid generalized discontent

As Colombians emerge from the pandemic to find increasing inequality, inflation and violence, they will pick their next president Sunday from a pool of six men who are all promising various degrees of change amid a generalized sense that the country is headed in the wrong direction

Chicago Sun-Times

Cocaine seizures soar in Chicago, surrounding states, as DEA ‘snow’ forecast comes true

Heroin and marijuana have long been Mexican cartels’ big moneymakers in Chicago. But DEA cocaine seizures rose 50% in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in the year ending Sept. 30 and keep rising in the Chicago area.

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