Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses the ELN guerrilla of having the Sinaloa Cartel as its “boss”.
The Colombian president assured that the “owners” of these guerrilla structures are not Colombian commanders, but the Mexicans who buy the cocaine.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla of operating under the orders of the Sinaloa Cartel and of supplying cocaine to this Mexican criminal group.
“The Sinaloa Cartel is the current head of the ELN,” Petro said in a speech on Friday afternoon at the Industrial University of Santander (UIS) in the northeastern city of Bucaramanga, where this guerrilla group was born 60 years ago.
On January 17, Petro broke off the peace talks that his government held with the ELN since 2022. The president’s decision came after that guerrilla group unleashed an offensive that caused the death of dozens of civilians in Catatumbo, a border area with Venezuela.
According to the Colombian president, the red and black flags that identify that guerrilla group “no longer mean freedom or death but blood, blood and more blood.”
He pointed out that the “owners” of these guerrilla structures “are not Colombian commanders, they are the (Mexican cartels) who buy the cocaine.”
“The revolution, cannot be death, the revolution cannot be drug trafficking and drug consumption, because the revolution has to be dignity,” added the president and former M-19 guerrilla.
Source: Proceso
