COLOMBIA-PAZ – TELAM Agency
The leader of the National Liberation Army (ELN), Eliécer Herlinto Chamorro Acosta, alias Antonio García, assured today that the Colombian government “continues to fail to comply” with agreements already reached within the framework of the peace process opened between the parties.
“Unfulfilled agreements on the part of the Government continue, such as withdrawing the ELN from the list of GAOs (Organized Armed Groups), which should have been fulfilled at the end of June. Humanitarian actions in the regions have not advanced either,” the guerrilla fighter highlighted on the social network. X, formerly known as Twitter.
“We need a much deeper change than replacing some technologies with others, a just transition towards local, democratic, diverse economies. Not perpetuating with solar panels the same colonial system that brought us to this collapse of civilization,” he added in a subsequent message.
On August 23, the ELN communicated about the kidnapping of a soldier in the east of the country, despite the fact that the ceasefire that the guerrillas agreed with the Colombian government has been in force since August 3, within the framework of the peace dialogue.
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, participated that day together with several guerrilla leaders in an act in Bogotá with which the National Participation Committee (CNP) was launched to guarantee the inclusion of citizens in the peace process and which marked the start of the six-month ceasefire.
The act was to publicly install the CNP, which emerged from the three rounds of negotiations between the Executive and the ELN in Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba, and in which 81 delegates from 30 sectors will be in charge of bringing the contributions and requests from civil society to achieve peace.
Until September 4, the fourth cycle of dialogues that seeks to achieve a “humanitarian relief” to the areas most affected by the conflict.
Source: Ambito
