The systemic crisis of capitalism deepens, with the offensive of US imperialism to maintain world hegemony, damaging even its own allies and international institutions, which previously regulated the geopolitical and economic order; all the hotbeds of war are also escalating. The genocidal extermination of the Palestinian people by the Zionist State of Israel has all the logistical and military support of the United States and the complicity of most European countries. This barbarity marks an ethical turning point for humanity and demands effective solidarity.
Colombia, under the leadership of Petro’s government, continues to play the role of submissive pawn of empire and capital on this world stage. Petro presented himself as a progressive social democrat, little by little he has revealed his militarist and counterinsurgency character. He negotiates his governance with the oligarchy, offering a discourse of reform and peace, but his real commitment is to contain, lull, capture, and demobilize the social force that has been mobilizing in the face of the unbearable situation created by an unjust economic, political, and social model.
Social reforms are high-flown rhetoric for this government, which is gradually leading to disillusionment and frustration for the majority; false promises that become bargaining chips to negotiate with the same oligarchy. Petro is now calling the people to the streets, exploiting social struggles to pressure the oligarchy in his negotiations.
Petro’s government in its twilight, ends up suffocated by its corruption scandals, and giving more importance to the militaristic and warlike measures characteristic of the Colombian political regime. Thus, Colombia once again had a military defense minister; a state of siege was reimposed, under the guise of the State of Internal Unrest in Catatumbo; warplanes were purchased, and military spending was prioritized over social investment; the Amazon and Gorgona Island were handed over to US military control; drug trafficking and paramilitary gangs were sponsored and defended, continuing the social genocide and humanitarian crisis.
Despite the disillusionment that exists in broad sectors of the people, we are certain that the will to fight is not dormant. The popular insurgency has not been defeated and the ELN will remain firm in building the real changes that are needed.
The people continue to mobilize in the streets, in assemblies, town meetings, marches, strikes, blockades, and protests, on walls that paint the regime’s disgrace, in popular songs that keep alive the memory of the struggle, which has not been and will not be defeated. We must go beyond the minimal points of the referendum and return to the comprehensive agendas and banners that have been raised in the mobilizations of all sectors of the country in recent decades.
The lies and perfidy against the ELN do not deceive anyone; the facts and the righteousness of the revolutionary cause give us the reason and strength to follow the path of national liberation and the construction of socialism. Elenas and Elenos continue unwaveringly in the struggle, seeking to build solutions to the long night of oligarchic violence against the Colombian people.
Within the framework of the dialogues and negotiations between the government and the ELN, we prioritize advancing a process of participation of society, to build the agenda of transformations and the institutional changes necessary to achieve peace and social justice. Once again, the government did not live up to the commitments and aspirations of the Colombian people and failed to fulfill this social mandate.
Total peace is the continuity of the counterinsurgency model: total war, where paramilitarism is strengthened in favor of dispossession against the communities that defend their territories and projects of life. Petro shamelessly commits himself to defending and legalizing the gangs of narco-paramilitarism, while he raves about insults against the ELN and anyone who criticizes him.
In the absence of a peace policy from the government to engage in dialogue with a socially and politically motivated armed insurgency, the ELN has been left without an interlocutor. Having overcome this challenge, we remain willing to seek transformations, with the direct participation and power of the people, that will guarantee peace for Colombia.
Colombia… for the workers!
Not one step back… liberation or death!
National Directorate
National Liberation Army
Mountains of Colombia
June 2025
Source: https://insurgenciaurbana-eln.net/petro-no-cumple-la-lucha-sigue/