US-backed Colombian government’s High Peace Commissioner, Luis Carlos Restrepo, has agreed to meet with the nation’s largest guerilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN) for the first time in decades of fighting, to be held on December 12th in Cuba, after the ELN’s formal rejection of anything stated by Uribe’s re-election campaign. The conference will be an open forum where the ELN can discuss anything they desire. The ELN will be one of several guerilla organizations suing for peace in Colombia; over 20,000, or 45% of the AUC group have disarmed. The one insurgency organization to resist peace talks are the FARC, because of their role in the international drug trade.