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Trump, Venezuela and the ELN: The Geopolitics of Peace in Colombia

By Karen Arteaga Garzón, Gwen Burnyeat, Andrei Gómez-Suárez, Germán Otálora Gallego

The ELN has become an increasingly binational insurgency, with major political implications for the region.

While much international attention was given to Colombia’s peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), the country’s last remaining guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), is still engaged in a war with the state that started in 1964 This conflict not only threatens the sustainability of the peace accord signed with the FARC, whose ongoing implementation faces numerous challenges, but is in fact at the heart of an unfolding regional crisis, entangled in tense geopolitics between the US, Venezuela, Cuba and Colombia Many...

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