https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/19/colombia-eln-guerrilla-group-attack-military-base

Seven Colombian soldiers killed in rebel drone attack on base near Venezuela

Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group has attacked a military base near Venezuela with drones and explosives, killing seven soldiers and wounding 30.

Founded in 1964 and inspired by the Cuban revolution, the ELN is the oldest surviving guerrilla group in the Americas, and controls key drug-producing regions of Colombia. Efforts to negotiate a peace settlement have repeatedly stalled.

The Thursday night attack on the rural military outpost in Aguachica, near the border with Venezuela, was the second deadly clash with security forces in a week. Two police officers were killed on Tuesday in
Cali.