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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Colombia’s top military commander says 40 percent of ELN and ex-FARC fighters operate in Venezuela, a figure that must be…
As gold prices have skyrocketed, criminal groups once solely dedicated to the trafficking of drugs and arms have moved into…
The Urabeños, one of Colombia's dominant drug groups, are seemingly ramping up operations along the Colombia-Venezuela border – a gambit…
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was the pioneer in industrial-scale cocaine trafficking.
The death of a top guerrilla commander in southern Colombia has unveiled an all-too-familiar situation: the leaders of criminal groups…
Seizures of coltan in Colombia have shown the complex networks used by armed groups to smuggle the valuable mineral from…
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