- Title: Colombia to begin peace talks with ELN rebel group February 8
- Date: 18th January 2017
- Summary: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (FILE - OCTOBER 26, 2016) (REUTERS) CONFLICT ANALYST, ARIEL AVILA, DURING REUTERS INTERVIEW (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CONFLICT ANALYST, ARIEL AVILA, SAYING: "The FARC is an army trying to practice politics; the ELN is a political organisation trying to wage war. In other words, the ELN may have a small number of armed fighters, but its social base is much larger than that of the FARC. They (the ELN) are in many more urban places than the FARC. So, it is not right to measure them by the numbers of armed men, but yes they have more or less 2,500 armed men and some 5,000 or 6,0000 civil members, but the ELN is not just that, it is much more, its political base is much wider."
- Embargoed: 1st February 2017 18:01
- Keywords: ELN rebels insurgency Colombia peace talks FARC
- Location: UNIDENTIFIED JUNGLE REGION, SAN PABLO, ANTIOQUIA, SIERRA NEVADA, SANTA MARTA, CESAR, CATATUMBO RIVER, NORTE SANTANDER, BOGOTA AND ARAUCA, COLOMBIA AND CARACAS, VENEZUELA
- City: UNIDENTIFIED JUNGLE REGION, SAN PABLO, ANTIOQUIA, SIERRA NEVADA, SANTA MARTA, CESAR, CATATUMBO RIVER, NORTE SANTANDER, BOGOTA AND ARAUCA, COLOMBIA AND CARACAS, VENEZUELA
- Country: Colombia
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Insurgencies
- Reuters ID: LVA0095ZMKPJB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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