- Title: Colombia to begin peace talks with ELN rebel group February 8
- Date: 18th January 2017
- Summary: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (FILE - OCTOBER 26, 2016) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CONFLICT ANALYST, ARIEL AVILA, SAYING: "The ELN does not have such a great stigma as the FARC does, but throughout the eight years of former president Alvaro Uribe´s government a discourse was maintained that they were a terrorist organisation and a drug trafficking organisation, and you cannot overcome that in a matter of a few months. This country has a lot of open wounds, a lot of truths to come to light, a lot of things to be pardoned. The process of reconciliation will not come before or after a plebiscite, a referendum or a constituent assembly, this is going to take a long time."
- 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: LVA00E5ZMKPJB
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