Colombian guerrilla leader steps down due to illness

Handout picture released on July 28, 2011 by the Ministry of Defense with Nicolas Rodriguez Bautista aka "Gabino" second from right. HAVANA: The leader of the last active guerrilla group in Colombia, Nicolas Rodriguez Bautista, has announced his retirement due to ill health, eliciting an angry response from Bogota.

He said he has been in Cuba since May 2018 under a humanitarian agreement between the two countries, and is receiving medical care there for an undisclosed ailment. In another statement, dated June 14 but also released Thursday, the ELN said Bautista would be replaced by Antonio Garcia.Colombian President Ivan Duque ended negotiations in 2019 with the ELN, the only rebel force still active after a 2016 peace accord disarmed the last guerrillas of the FARC to end decades of civil war.Duque wants Cuba to hand over ELN members who are on its soil.

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