- FILE PHOTO 5JUN98 - Two rebels of the National Liberation Army (ELN) stand guard in a central nei.....
- FILE PHOTO 5JUN98 - Two rebels of the National Liberation Army (ELN) stand guard in a central neighborhood of the northern oil city of Barrancabermeja as they prepare to free four Colombian employees of the goverment's Human Rights Ombudsman's office. Winds of peace blew a cross Colombia July 15 as Marxist rebels and their arch foes, the ultra-right death squads, mapped out plans for full-fledged talks to end the country's long-running civil conflict. [The ELN concluded three-days of tentative peace talks with Colombian religious, business and labor leaders in Germany while paramilitary chieftains issued a communique calling for peace talks with president-elect Andres Pastrana].