At least 40% of fighters from Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels could reject a potential peace deal being negotiated with the government, three high-level security sources told Reuters, citing reluctance to surrender profits from drug smuggling and illegal mining.
The estimate puts at risk ambitious plans by the country's first leftist leader, President Gustavo Petro, to end Colombia's six-decade war, which has killed 450,000 people, through accords with rebels and criminal groups.
It would also appear to undermine repeated reassurances by ELN leaders that the group is united behind talks. The group did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The three security sources said some 2,300 of the ELN's total 5,850 members were seen as likely to reject the deal. "Illicit economies like drug trafficking and illegal mining and their millions in earnings will be the principal incentive for many members of the ELN to continue in their armed struggle and reject a peace accord," one of the sources said.
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