Colombia rebel leaders met secretly to pursue peace talks -government
Colombia rebel leaders met secretly to pursue peace talks -government
Source: Reuters - Tue, 12 May 2015 19:36 GMT
BOGOTA, May 12 (Reuters) - The head of Colombia's leftist FARC rebels has met with his counterpart in the smaller ELN guerrilla group to try to convince him to bring his movement into peace talks, a senior government negotiator said on Tuesday.
The FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has been in peace talks with the government for more than two years, but the ELN, or National Liberation Army, is still mulling whether to enter into negotiations.
Both groups have been fighting the government for 50 years in a war that has killed more than 220,000 people and created one of the world's largest internally displaced populations.
Humberto de la Calle, the government's chief negotiator with FARC, said the group's leader, Rodrigo Londono, who is better known as "Timochenko," met the ELN's Nicolas Rodriguez, or "Gabino," in Cuba in late April.
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