Dissident Groups of FARC and ELN Spread Terror in Ecuador. Government Catalogues Them as Organized Armed Groups

The measure follows the ambush in the Amazon that left eleven soldiers dead and seeks to strengthen the State’s response to transnational crime

By Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español The advance of the operation of dissident groups of the FARC and the ELN in Ecuadorian territory forces the government to take new measures in its fight against transnational crime. President Daniel Noboa decreed on Thursday that “organized armed groups” be identified as criminal structures Front Oliver Sinisterra, Southern Community Dissidences and Border Commands. The three groups are dissidents of the FA…

This Thursday, May 15, President Daniel Noboa issued Executive Decree 632 in which he identifies as organized armed groups the structures: “Frente Oliver Sinisterra”, “Dissidencias Comuneros del Sur” and “Comandos de la Frontera”, for their incidence within the internal armed conflict in Ecuador.

Two illegal mining camps were disbarred this Friday in a border area of Ecuador with Peru, within the operations that are taking place in the Andean country after the ambush suffered by the Army last week, where eleven soldiers died in an action attributed to a dissident group of the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The dismantling of these two new camps took place in the sector El Belén, belonging to the canton E…

A drone attack on the 20th of July, in the municipality of Tibu, Norte de Santander, left a tragic death toll of a child of 12 years of age and about 12 people injured. The incident, attributed to the National Liberation Army (ELN), occurred on May 15 in the midst of clashes with the FARC’s dissents in the region of Catatumbo. The Catatumbo Peasant Association confirmed the identity of the fatal victim as Luis Antonio Aragón Vaca, a peasant boy …

Ecuador recognizes the dissidents of the Farc and the ELN as actors of its internal armed conflict.Agencia Period... Vie, 16/05/2025 - 13:44 Following the massacre of 11 soldiers in Orellana, the government of Daniel Noboa included three Colombian guerrilla groups among those responsible for the violence that shakes the country. Tags { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "DataFeed", "name": "", "description": "", "creator": "@type": "Orga…