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COLOMBIA’S ELN rebels questioned the government’s commitment to peace on Monday amid a wave of peasant-leader killings.
In a statement to reporters, ELN chief negotiator Pablo Beltran expressed “serious doubts” about the government’s good faith in talks due to begin in Ecuador’s capital Quito in two weeks.
“Despite a conciliatory language on the table, in daily life the political persecution of the left and anyone who thinks differently keeps increasing, while deaths keep mounting,” he said.
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM