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Colombia Government Imposes Curfew After Bomb Attacks Injure Six People

Deji Ogunsola
Last updated: February 21, 2025 2:41 am
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Guerrilla fighters carried out four bomb attacks that wounded six people in a restive region of northeast Colombia, prompting officials to declare an overnight curfew on Thursday and stoking concerns for a fragile peace process.

The police and military blamed the ELN group, with which the government called off peace talks last month, for the attacks in a cocaine-producing region near Colombia’s border with Venezuela on Wednesday night.

A car bomb all but destroyed a toll booth outside the city of Villa del Rosario, while explosives were also detonated at police stations in the same city and in neighboring Cucuta, police commander General William Quintero told W Radio.

9News Nigeria reports that a source in the Norte de Santander departmental government, of which Cucuta is the capital, told reporters that six people were injured.

Cucuta Mayor Jorge Acevedo announced an 11-hour curfew starting at 7:00 pm Thursday, midnight GMT, with schools shuttered on Friday.

Analysts say the security situation in Colombia has deteriorated under President Gustavo Petro’s peace drive, which has seen an easing of the state’s military offensive against armed groups, who are gaining strength.

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Petro was elected in 2022 on promises of bringing “total peace” to a country battling to extricate itself from six decades of armed conflict between leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug cartels and the government.

Talks with remaining armed groups have broken down several times since a deal inked in 2016 led to the disarmament of the FARC, the biggest among the rebel armies.

The Norte de Santander department is a stronghold of the 5,800-strong National Liberation Army, ELN, which last month launched an offensive targeting rival fighters and civilians it alleged to be sympathizers in the Catatumbo region.

More than 60 people have been killed and some 50,000 driven from their homes, prompting Petro’s government to suspend talks with the ELN.

The ELN has taken part in failed negotiations with Colombia’s last five governments, as the country also faces a political crisis, with deeply unpopular Petro this month asking his entire cabinet to resign on the grounds they were ineffective.

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