May 29 will be the first round of the presidential elections where the "peace" issue, which has occupied the attention during the last 24 years in the political electoral debate since the government of Andres Pastrana, is no longer the protagonist.

The ELN is in a comfortable situation, of territorial and operational readjustment, and Venezuela is an invaluable scenario. This, taking into account the strategic advantages, of withdrawal and of obtaining resources that it provides to the guerrilla, and which in turn discourages any negotiating framework.