We commemorate one more year of the physical departure of our Commanders: Oscar Santos, February 11, 2006; Manuel Pérez Martínez, 14 February 1998; Camilo Torres Restrepo, February 15, 1966, examples of dignity and resistance, together with them we ratify our unwavering commitment to the struggles of the people, transformations and socialism.
2025 began with the increase of an onslaught against the Colombian people by paramilitarism in all its expressions, in collusion with the armed forces of the State. Evidence of this are the sustained and coordinated operations with the Gulf Clan in southern Bolívar and Chocó; with the gangs of Iván Mordisco in Cauca and Catatumbo, where the ex-FARC of the 33rd front, as a result of a series of irregularities committed in the territory, end up massacring a family and declaring war on the people and the ELN, while intelligence and the Army have made it easier for this group to be strengthened.
We continue in the struggle for national liberation based on the sacred and legitimate right to rebellion, confronting the causes for which we rise up in arms as part of the Colombian people. The disposition for peace has been present since our emergence, but the model of disarmament, demobilization and surrender as a State policy is not a true peace policy when injustice, inequality, corruption, hunger, femicides, exclusion, political persecution and demagoguery of the current government are maintained. Peace is necessary because it means a political solution to the social and armed conflict and structural changes that benefit the majority of the country.
“Total peace” turned out to be a policy of war and militarization of the territories; in which the new and old paramilitarism are protected to continue their actions of aggression against the people. The counterinsurgency plan in the regions is expressed in the persecution, harassment and assassinations of leaders who defend the territories in Cauca, Chocó, Arauca, Nariño and Catatumbo, among many other regions, at the hands of the joint action of the Army, ex-FARC, Clan del Golfo and other armed gangs. This enemy plan also includes actions against the integrity of rural and urban communities, disinformation and pillage by these paramilitary forces in which we are falsely accused. Confronting paramilitarism involves deepening analyses, combating media manipulation and having a critical attitude towards reality in order to act accordingly and transform it.
The policy of war against the people is intensified in the cities of the country, through the takeover of gangs in communes and neighborhoods that, supported by the Police, maintain the micro-trafficking, the hired killer offices, the control of neighborhoods and the “drop by drop”, which enslave the most impoverished people.
The police and state repression against the youth, against the victims and the communities does not stop, the murders of organized youth continue, the repression and harassment of the population that expresses itself against paramilitarism and its allies “the good people”, through public denunciations, murals and mobilizations. In the streets the people defend their conquests and express the truth, their victims and their executioners, “the elders are right” is the cry of the majority.
In the countryside and cities, the war against the people continues and the government insists on peace policies that do not address the structural problems that originated the social and armed conflict more than six decades ago. It is therefore up to us to continue organizing the fight for dignity, fighting against the State and its paramilitary forces, together with the humblest communities of the neighborhoods and territories in resistance, we will not stop persisting in the search for a political solution for all, definitive and lasting with peace and social justice.
¡Colombia… for workers!
Not one step back… Liberation or death!
FRENTE DE GUERRA URBANO NACIONAL
COMANDANTE EN JEFE CAMILO TORRES RESTREPO
EJÉRCITO DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL
Cities of Colombia
February 2025
https://insurgenciaurbana-eln.net/comunicado-a-la-opinion-publica-12/