An army officer was injured in a bomb attack in the military canton of Saravena (Arauca)

At around 8 p.m. on Monday, March 13, they reported a bomb attack on the military district of San Jorge in the municipality of Saravena (Arauca), as reported by the National Army.

“In a cowardly terrorist action which transgresses the provisions of international humanitarian law and violates human rights, The military canton of San Jorge in Saravena #Arauca was attacked with explosive devices by GAO Eln (sic)”, reported on the official Twitter account of the National Army’s Eighth Division.

In the midst of the attack on the headquarters of the military force one of the agents of this establishment was injured and was transferred to a care center Population.

“As a result of this criminal attack, one of our senior soldiers was injured by shrapnel, which immediately He was helped by military rescuers and evacuated to a medical center in the municipality of Saravena, where he is stable. (sic),” the Quirón task force said in a statement.

In the letter, the military reiterated that the perpetrators of the attack were members of the ELN guerrillas and indicated that the uniformed officers had made a sweep the area in case there are more explosives.

“At this time, military operations continue to identify those responsible for this terrorist act, as well as examine the facilities of the military unit and its surroundings to exclude the presence of any other artifacts”, underline.

Finally, they indicated that in addition to rejecting this attack, which also affected the tranquility of the surrounding community, they would file the respective complaint with the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation.

On Friday 10 March, the second round of negotiations with the ELN in Mexico concluded where there has been no significant progress for the insurgents to abandon the use of violence, according to the report delivered by alias Pablo Beltrán, one of the main subversive leaders of this guerrilla.

“There will be a halt to offensive operations, we are maintaining a defensive system of course. Even a government official told me and those of the Clan del Golfo, and then I told him that if he didn’t touch me, I wouldn’t touch him,” assured in an interview with snail radio.

While he was at the station Radio Blue He reiterated that a cessation of hostilities has not yet been agreed and recalled the frustrated announcement at the end of the year when the President, Gustavo Petro, took it for granted: “We said that the ELN respects the agreement in which it participates and signs it, in the meantime not. Since they did not consult us, we could not complete it. It’s like a courtship, when they first do it to you, you get to know what the other party is like.

Although he assured that the ELN guerrillas had no offensive will, he admitted that achieving a ceasefire will not be easy: “The ceasefire has a big problem. First of all, the art consists in saying what is forbidden and what is not. We agreed that it has to be a transition. We prove that we comply and we build trust.”

In the meantime Sergio Jaramillo, one of the former negotiators of the peace process with the FARC, pointed out that in an interview he gave to the radio W Radio that the ELN their will to end the conflict has not been demonstrated.

“(This group) does not commit to anything, but rather leaves the doors open to endless negotiations. We are facing a kind of armed peace that violates the sacred principle of Havana, which is to close the cycle between politics and arms,” He said on the radio.