Cuba alarms Colombia over military strike by ELN guerrillas | International

Release of three military troops secured by the N in Arauca, in September 2018.
Release of three military troops secured by the NN in Arauca, in September 2018.AFP

The Governor of Cuba warned Colombian Chancellor Claudia Blum about an attempt by a faction of the National Liberation Party (ELN), considered the last active guerrilla in the Andean country. “Our embassy in Colombia receives information, which verosimilitud can not evaluate, pursues a military attack on the part of the ELN’s Oriental Front”, said the memorandum that this month’s affidavit, signed by the Ambassador of the Is , José Luis Ponce.

The diplomat is also signaling that the adviser will provide information to the ELN negotiator who will be in La Habana at a rupture meeting with Ivan Gque’s Governor. The move does not go into great detail and is limited to confirming that its delegation “expresses total agreement and rejects the guarantee that it has no involvement in the military and operational decisions of the organization”. The UNU’s verification mission in Colombia has also received a copy of the map, but it is worthwhile to comment on the topic.

Of Catholic Races and Admiral of Ernesto Che Guevara, the ELN guerrilla has a federated structure that complicates a negotiation process. The persecution of the dome negotiator that permanence in the island can favor the military and the most reactive factions to establish a dialogue, he advertised various analyzes.

“The ELN group is classified as a terrorist by the Colombian Gobierno”, also announced by the United States and the European Union, reiterated last night the recently appointed Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, in a statement from the House of Representatives. “The Gobierno wants to reiterate that it has made a firm decision since then, since it initiated the Duke’s Administration, to dismantle this group as the only mechanism to prevent it from acting with its terrorist acts in different regions.

The memorandum is known in the midst of recent tensions between the governors of Bogotá and La Habana. The deterrent of relations is being reopened following the rupture of the dialogue with the Guevarista group of assailants against a cadet school in Bogotá that caused 22 deaths, perpetrated by the Oriental Front in January 2019, when Duque completes his first power. As is the case with the negotiations that take place in agreement with the extinct guerrilla groups of the FARC, Cuba albergo the talks with the ELN. Based on the rupture protocols, the island was accused of extraditing to the guerrilla dome, a gesture that irritated the Duke’s Executive, which accused it of being a “hostile act”.

Colombia’s diplomatic campaign also motivates, in particular, Cuba’s designation as a patron of terrorism by the United States in the last days of the Donald Trump administration. Joe Biden and La Habana decide to have a decisive entorpece los planes del presidente and the provocado diversas reacyciones.

The Duke’s forerunner, the former Juan Manuel Santos, represented by the group of world leaders reunited in the organization The Elders, vra om die una semana al mandatario estadounidense que revoque esa designation. The main negotiators in the dialogues with the FARC, Humberto de la Calle and Sergio Jaramillo, have defended the Cuban paper as guarantor of the pact and will advise me on what it is that I am only playing in any event with the ELN or Washington’s relations with La Habana, “without the possibility of moving to peace negotiations”.

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