Andean Group - February 2025

A rapid offensive by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group in north-eastern Colombia has all but dashed hopes for a negotiated peace settlement and has forced an uncharacteristically bellicose response from President Gustavo Petro. While the government concentrates its efforts on preventing the ELN from seizing control of a long stretch of the border with Venezuela, other parts of Colombia are also seeing a sudden escalation in violence, as we explore in the first article of this February 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group. The resurgence in guerrilla violence comes as Colombia’s tourism sector enjoyed another record-breaking year in 2024, as we discuss in the following article.

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