COLOMBIA
Seeing Red
Colombia has added a public call to what it said was a verbal request earlier this month asking Cuba to arrest and extradite ELN rebel commander Nicolas Rodriguez.
Bogota had asked for information about several rebel leaders of the National Liberation Army (ELN) it believes are in Cuban territory on Nov. 6 and asked Havana to act on an Interpol Red Notice against Rodriguez, Reuters reported, citing a foreign ministry statement.
The move could hurt efforts to restart peace talks with the rebel group – which did not lay down its arms in tandem with the larger Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016, Reuters said.
After winning election on campaign promises of a tougher stanceagainst current and former guerrillas, Colombian President Ivan Duque in August froze the Cuba-based peace talks with ELN pending the release of about 10 hostages held by the group.
In September, the negotiators returned home as part of a scheduled move to relieve them. But Duque said he wouldn’t send replacements until the captives were freed and the ELN ceased criminal activity.
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