Colombia begins peace talks with ELN

- The Colombian government officially begins peace talks with the rebel group ELN, the National Liberation Army. That says a source in the staff of the chief negotiator of the government.

Bogotá has been two years in discussions with the small movement, which is active mainly in the north of the country. Like the larger Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the basis of the ELN is in ultra-left ideas from the sixties which is mixed with terrorism and the lucrative drug crime. Kidnapping and drug trafficking are the main cork where currently an estimated 2,000 fighters of the ELN, which has been identified by the European Union and the United States as a terrorist movement by driving.