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ELN goes diplomatic as Colombia and Venezuela bicker over border security
April 9, 2021
While the governments of Colombia and Venezuela blame each other for a recent outburst of violence in the border region, ELN guerrillas who effectively control the region are calling for a ceasefire.
The guerrillas apparently refuse to get involved in violence between alleged FARC dissidents and the Venezuelan military that has killed at least eight soldiers over the past two weeks.
The ELN’s control over Colombia’s Arauca province and Venezuela’s Apure state is virtually undisputed, but they seem to shun the fighting and the mutual blame game between Bogota and Caracas.
March 1, 2021
US President Joe Biden is increasing pressure on Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to stop trying to obstruct justice and his country’s peace process.
Biden wrote his Colombian counterpart that he “eager to reinvigorate” relations, but was “committed to a bipartisan agenda” that “contributes towards a durable peace” in Colombia.
The February 17 letter was the first time the US President personally reached out to his Colombian counterpart since Biden’s election in November last year.
Relations between the two countries strained after US authorities found out that Duque’s far-right party and Colombia’s ambassador to Washington DC were trying to meddle in the US elections.
Photo: Carlos Ortega/EFE
Less than a week before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, a pandemic on March 11, Colombia had already registered its first case of the disease after a citizen residing in Milan, Italy, returned to the country and required medical attention in a Bogotá hospital.
With cases increasing during March, from one to several hundred each day, the national government enacted health emergency measures which remain in effect to this day. And now, as the world commemorates more than 2 million lives lost to the virus and 100 million cases, included in these numbers from Johns Hopkins is Colombia, which on Saturday surpassed 2 million cases. The country also witnessed a harrowing 50,000 deaths in 10 months, with thousands of additional victims estimated during the months of February and March as the nation grapples with a second wave of the pandemic. Even though the second wave is more infectious than the original o
A Catholic bishop in Colombia has called for the immediate stop to irrational violence and for the government to ensure the security of all in a country already besieged by the coronavirus pandemic. The pain for the more than 1,000 dead due to the COVID-19 pandemic in our region is reinforced by the deaths that continue due to the other pandemic, namely irrational violence , said Bishop Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro of Pasto.
The bishop was responding to the recent death of 15-year-old Marbel Rosero who was murdered with machetes in the El Tablon de Gómez municipality, Nariño, when she was on her way to bring her father lunch.