US EditionUS, Colombia Agree to Joint Military Action Against ELN Rebels
The United States and Colombia plan joint military operations targeting the ELN’s cocaine-smuggling routes on the porous Colombia-Venezuela border, involving about 60% of ELN's armed capacity.
- On Thursday, Presidents Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro spoke by phone, committing to joint actions targeting the National Liberation Army .
- A porous 2,200-kilometre Colombia–Venezuela border has long hosted armed groups contesting illicit profits, and Colombia's Defence Ministry says guerrilla kingpins threaten security after Nicolás Maduro's ouster.
- Colombian officials say the National Liberation Army launches attacks and kidnappings then retreats to rear bases in Venezuela, which security experts say control cocaine-trafficking routes along the border.
- Bogota deployed thousands of troops to the more than 2,200km border and AFP observed Colombian soldiers in Cúcuta, while a Colombian armed forces officer reported guerrilla leaders trying to cross after Washington's weekend raid.
- Petro's stalled negotiations with the ELN set a tense backdrop as United States–Colombia relations have deteriorated since Trump began his second term, while a summit of insurgent commanders was summoned Thursday.
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In the midst of a climate of recent diplomatic tensions between Colombia and the United States, leftist President Gustavo Petro and US President Donald Trump agreed to undertake "joint actions" to confront the National Liberation Army (ELN), the guerrillas operating on the border with Venezuela, Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti reported on Thursday.
Commanders of the Colombian guerrillas who allegedly operated in Venezuela fled after the American operation that ousted President Nicolas Maduro, told the AFP on Tuesday a source within the Colombian forces. ...
Remarkably fatalistic, the people at the Simón Bolívar Bridge between Venezuela and Colombia encounter the fall of Maduro. Their everyday life between poverty and drug gangs is already hard enough.
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