Colombia's government and its largest remaining guerrilla group ELN agree to six-month ceasefire at talks in Cuba, in the latest bid to resolve a conflict dating back to 1960
Deal for "bilateral, national and temporary ceasefire," says Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, was signed in presence of Colombian President Gustavo Petro and ELN leader Antonio Garcia.Colombian President Gustavo Petro [L], Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel [C], and ELN guerrilla group's Antonio Garcia are pictured at the end of the closing of the third round of peace talks.
A deal for a"bilateral, national and temporary ceasefire," according to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, was signed on Friday in the presence of Colombian President Gustavo Petro and ELN leader Antonio Garcia. The ELN has taken part in failed negotiations with Colombia's last five governments, and has been party to only one previous ceasefire, which lasted for 101 days in 2017 and 2018.
Garcia, whose presence was made possible by Colombia's top prosecutor scrapping an arrest warrant for him just days earlier, was more cautious.Dialogue with the ELN started in 2018 under then-president Juan Manuel Santos, who had signed a peace treaty two years earlier with the larger Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia [FARC] rebel group.
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