Colombian bishops lament permanent curfew imposed by Marxist rebels
August 21, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist-Leninist guerilla group, has declared a permanent curfew, or “armed strike,” in Colombia’s Chocó Department.
Addressing “the communities affected by this illegal armed strike,” the Colombian bishops’ National Secretariat for Social Pastoral Care expressed “solidarity in the face of the territorial control exercised by those who do not honor life, nor encourage hope, in the territory they claim to defend and support.”
“People must not die,” Bishop Mario de Jesús Álvarez Gómez and Bishop-elect Wiston Mosquera Moreno added in a separate statement. “People must not be confined, as no one can deprive them of their freedom.”
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