“Speaking of illegal economies, which Gustavo Petro likes to talk about, I remember that in the mid-80s, He being only a regional leader of the M-19 in Santander (northeast), he asked us to ‘take him’ in some taxes that the ELN was collecting to transportation,” the guerrilla leader then expressed on social network X.
Likewise, ‘García’ published a column in which he stressed that, according to the ELN, “the peace process being carried out with the Colombian Government is in a state of crisis”, reflected in the fact that there are no new meetings agreed between the parties. .
The guerrilla, according to its commander, accuses the Government of “dodging agreements or breaking them, giving it biased interpretations through media manipulation, trying to make it believe that it was the ELN who was failing to comply in order to pressure and vainly get the ELN to accept impositions.”
“The political definitions in the ELN are built collectively, the leadership bodies obey democratic mandates, we have a long political tradition, since the current National Directorate and Central Command have been uninterrupted in their role of strategic leadership for more than three decades,” he added. the head of that armed group.
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