“The cowardly murder in captivity is an atrocious crime that we as a country condemn and for which the full weight of the law must fall on the ELN terrorists. All our solidarity with his family and friends,” Duque tweeted when reacting to the news. .
The High Commissioner for Peace, Juan Camilo Restrepo Gómez, regretted the death and recalled that the politician “had been deprived of his liberty for more than two years.”
“Things by name: he had been kidnapped by the ELN for more than two years. This group must cease its criminal activities. Stop kidnapping, the installation of antipersonnel mines, the recruitment of minors and that its drug trafficking activity cease”, added Restrepo, quoted by local newspaper El Espectador.
Mosquera was kidnapped on August 24, 2019, when he was campaigning as the Liberal Party candidate for Mayor of Alto Baudo, in the Choco department, in the northwest of the country.
The ELN began peace negotiations with the then Government of Juan Manuel Santos in February 2017, and this process was transferred to Havana, Cuba, in May 2018, to replicate the successful model used with the now-defunct FARC guerrilla.
But Duque made the continuation of the talks conditional on the guerrillas releasing all the people they have kidnapped and renouncing all criminal activity.
Peace negotiations were finally frozen by the government after the ELN car bomb attack on January 17 against a police school in Bogotá that left 22 cadets dead and 66 wounded.
Source From: Ambito
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