LatinNews Daily - 08 May 2018

Colombia: Colombia’s high commissioner for peace, Rodrigo Rivera, has confirmed that the peace negotiating team from the Ejército de Libración Nacional (ELN) guerrillas has arrived in Havana, Cuba, to set up a new peace dialogue table. The announcement by Rivera comes after, on 18 April, Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno announced that his country will no longer host the peace talks between the ELN and the Colombian government due to the ELN’s continued terrorist activities. Since then the Colombian government has been looking for a new host country for the talks, with Cuba offering itself last week. Rivera said that following the safe arrival of the ELN negotiating team in Havana, which hosted the successful peace talks with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) that were concluded in 2016, the peace talks are due to resume later this week after the government negotiating team arrives.

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