The National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional - ELN) is one of the two main guerrilla armies with left-wing political ideologies operating in Colombia. Initially a Marxist-Leninist nationalist movement, it now appears more focused on kidnapping, extortion and attacks on economic infrastructure. And while it eschewed drug trafficking for decades, it has recently been linked to the narcotics trade…
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A special tribunal has stated the number of victims connected to Colombia’s false positives scandal is almost three times higher…
A new alliance between two of Colombia's main criminal groups is seeking to contest the ELN's control of lucrative criminal…
As COVID-19 threatened the well-being of the populations they depend on for criminal income, it was largely in the interest…
In a region where 50 percent of the population already makes its living in the informal market, it was perhaps…
The killing of an Indigenous leader in Bahia Solano, on Colombia’s Pacific Coast, adds to mounting violence that has…
A 14-ton seizure of cocaine has exposed a trafficking network linking Colombian trafficking group Los Pachecna to a small smuggling…
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