(Eduardo Campos Lima. CRUX).
After a major left-wing guerrilla group in Colombia announced last week it will keep resorting to kidnappings in order to raise money for its operations, peace talks with the government were hit. However, there’s still room for hope, according to the Church’s major negotiator.
Father Hector Henao, who has been facilitating peace dialogues between insurgent organizations and the Colombian State since the 1990s, told Crux that the insistence of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army, or ELN) in keeping abductions and extortions is something that can be discussed at the negotiation table.