ELN – Battles in Southern Bolivar
Darío Ramírez Castro War Front
The Darío Ramírez Castro War Front of the ELN is fighting combined forces of the state army and the Gulf Clan cartel, who are attempting to seize the community mining titles of artisanal miners in gold-rich territories in Bolívar and Antioquia.
JANUARY 2026
– On the 13th at 9:00 a.m., a guerrilla offensive began against paramilitaries of the Gulf Clan in the trenches of Campo Café, in the La Caoba village of Mico Ahumado, in the municipality of Morales, southern Bolívar; The operation, which lasted until January 22, forced them to retreat from their fortifications in Metodio, San Agustín, Mina Rica, Santo Domingo, and Mina Cielo. During their escape, 12 sets of field equipment were recovered, along with 2 GPS devices, 2 Motorola radios, and 10 drone grenades. According to local residents, the narcoparamilitaries left several dead and wounded with them. The guerrilla units suffered 4 wounded.
– On the 22nd, a drone bombing was carried out on the Clan del Golfo base, located in the La Garita village, in the municipality of Río Viejo, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.
– On the 22nd, a drone bombing was carried out on the paramilitary base, located on the Sombrerón ridge, in the San Agustín village, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar, where one paramilitary member was killed and two were wounded.
– On the 23rd, a drone attack was carried out on a paramilitary base located in the village of San Agustín, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.
– On the 24th, a drone attack was carried out on a paramilitary base located at the Mina Rica junction, in the village of San Agustín, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.
– On the 29th at 11:40 am, during an hour-long firefight with the Clan del Golfo in the village of Santa Cecilia, Villa Flor, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar, we do not know of enemy casualties, but we had one comrade slightly wounded.
– On the 30th at 9 am, a drone attack was carried out on a paramilitary base located in the village of Santa Cecilia, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.
FEBRUARY
– On Sunday, February 1st at 9:00 AM, a paramilitary base located in the Santa Cecilia village, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.
– On February 4th at 10:40 AM, a paramilitary base located in the Santa Cecilia village, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.
– On February 5th at 11:00 AM, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, in the municipality of Morales, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones, resulting in the deaths of two paramilitaries and injuries to three others.
– On February 6th, a paramilitary base located in La Jungla, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.
– On the 6th at 2 pm, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, Morales municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.
– On the 7th at 4 am, after several skirmishes, guerrilla units seized the fortified positions of the Gulf Clan, located in Filo Alto de San Agustín, heading towards La Garita. The paramilitaries ultimately fled and abandoned their positions. Our force concluded without incident.
– On the 7th at 4 am, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, Morales municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones, resulting in one paramilitary member being wounded.
– On the 8th at 10 am, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, Morales municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.
– On the 10th, a paramilitary base located in the La Garita village of the Río Viejo municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones. Four paramilitaries were wounded, and to protect themselves, they used the civilian population as human shields, blending in with the people to avoid further bombings by our units.
– Also on the 10th, at 9:00 a.m., during an hour-long firefight between the guerrillas and the Clan del Golfo in Casa Verde, in the El Paraíso village of Santa Isabel, Santa Rosa municipality, southern Bolívar, the paramilitaries were forced to retreat. In their flight, they carried two dead and one paramilitary member seriously wounded by an anti-personnel mine (APM). The paramilitaries took refuge in La Antena, where at 4:00 p.m., faced with a new guerrilla attack, they were forced to flee again, carrying three dead and several wounded. Our comrade Vlacho, operations officer of the Compañía Simón Bolívar, was killed in action.
– On the 10th at 4:20 a.m., in the Mina Cielo village of the Arenales municipality, southern Bolívar, a paramilitary member was seriously injured after stepping on a landmine.
– On the 11th, a paramilitary base located in the La Garita village of Rio Viejo, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones. The results are unknown.
– On the 12th at 1:10 pm, fighting broke out between the guerrillas and the Clan del Golfo in the La Guarapería village of the Montecristo municipality, southern Bolívar, which lasted throughout the afternoon. One paramilitary member was killed and three wounded. The operation ended without further incident.
– On the 20th at 5:30 pm, the military base of the 48th Jungle Battalion of the state army, located in Mina Vieja in the San Lucas mountain range, was bombed with drones. The results are unknown.
– On the 20th at 9:30 pm, guerrilla units engaged in combat with the Gulf Clan in Casa Verde, in the El Paraíso village of Santa Isabel, Santa Rosa municipality, southern Bolívar department. The guerrillas managed to seize the paramilitary positions, forcing them to flee towards the Palmeritas area. The results of the engagement are unknown.
– On the 28th at 9 am, the military base of the 48th Jungle Battalion of the state army, located in Mina Vieja in the San Lucas mountain range, was bombed with drones. Fourteen professional soldiers were wounded, and a Black Hawk helicopter from the Military Aviation was hit by the bombs and forced to make an emergency landing in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar department. The operation concluded without further incident.
Source: https://eln-voces.net/2026/03/16/combates-en-el-sur-de-bolivar/
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The Erosion of the International Order
Comandante Antonio García
For decades, the so-called “rules-based international order” was presented as the civilizational horizon that emerged after the end of World War II in 1945, a framework of multilateral institutions, treaties, and consensuses that promised to replace the “law of the strongest” with the primacy of law.
This foundational narrative legitimized the postwar architecture and sustained the expansion of economic and political liberalism as a universal model. However, the most recent deliberations of the Munich Security Conference and the World Economic Forum (2026) reveal a profound mutation, a transition to an order governed by military, technological, and financial supremacy.
This shift is not merely rhetorical; it expresses the realization that the rules have been operating in an increasingly selective manner, where economic sanctions function as coercive devices, comparable to weapons of war, and that security, understood in strategic rather than human terms, has become the organizing principle of contemporary capitalism. The economy is militarized and foreign policy is corporatized, shaping—or rather, imposing—a new order where systemic competition replaces regulated cooperation.
Munich: Security as Dogma
The Munich Security Conference (2026) consolidated itself as a privileged space for strategic coordination among Western powers. The repeated emphasis on “deterrence,” “great power competition,” and the strengthening of military alliances reveals a significant shift, where classical diplomacy, based on negotiation, is discarded or used as part of a strategy of deception, while the next military coup is being prepared.
In this scenario, security ceases to be a means of guaranteeing stability and becomes an organizing dogma of the system. Now, technological and military supremacy redefines the limits of legitimacy, where international law fades or is conditioned by who holds the power.
Davos: Economy and War Under the Same Paradigm
In parallel with the security debates in Europe, the World Economic Forum (2026) has insisted that the energy transition, digitalization, and artificial intelligence constitute the pillars of the new global growth cycle. Its strategic reports underscore the need to strengthen supply chains, secure critical minerals, and accelerate technological innovation as conditions for the “resilience” of the global economic system.
However, these processes cannot be analyzed outside the context of geopolitics. The competition for advanced semiconductors, rare earth elements, and control of digital infrastructures is part of a systemic struggle for technological and productive primacy. Economic security has become national security. The corporate language of Davos—resilience, sustainability, innovation—thus converges with the strategic lexicon that dominates the Munich Security Conference: deterrence, hybrid threats, strategic competition. Both forums express the same concern: the reconfiguration of global power in a context where multipolarity has become highly conflictive, and where perhaps the very concept of “multi” is being questioned.
It has long been clear that historical hegemonic transitions combine financial expansion and military reorganization in cycles where economic supremacy is sustained by global coercive structures. Today, financialization coexists with accelerated remilitarization, evidenced by increased defense spending and the integration of industrial policy and security strategy. The global economy is not reorganizing itself apart from security; it is becoming securitized.
The Hemispheric Discourse: Latin America as a “Strategic Zone”
In this scenario, the interventions of Marco Rubio and other US leaders reaffirm a vision in which Latin America and the Caribbean are conceived as a geopolitical space under dispute. Under the narrative of countering “adversarial” influences and protecting strategic supply chains, the old doctrine of hemispheric alignment is presented as renewed and legitimized.
Furthermore, contemporary global capitalism has long operated through a transnational apparatus of control and security that connects states, corporations, and military complexes beyond formal borders. The expansion of mechanisms for military interoperability and regional security cooperation can be interpreted within this structural logic, a doctrine already in place.
The recent call for military leadership (2026) from more than thirty countries in the hemisphere by the United States suggests an attempt to institutionalize common standards of doctrine, training, and equipment that, in their strategic rationale, are reminiscent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), perhaps adopting a more suggestive name.
This “doctrinal” update is more dangerous because it goes beyond military risks. The expanded definition of “threats” incorporates social conflicts, disputes over natural resources, and sovereign political projects that challenge the dominant economic architecture.
From Consensus to Coercion
To date, all hegemony has combined consensus and coercion. After the Cold War, the liberal order was sustained by the promise of economic integration under common rules; today, faced with the fragmentation of the system and the rise of new powers, coercion is gaining centrality.
Crises in the world order become evident when its mechanisms of legitimation are exhausted, as is happening today with the proliferation of regional wars, sanctions, and technological disputes; where the transition is being attempted by prioritizing hard power, if not solely military power.
In this context, for the Global South, this means greater plunder, more financial and technological dependence, where the application of international rules is becoming increasingly diffuse or nonexistent.
Contemporary Barbarism and Challenges of the South
Current barbarism is not expressed as total collapse, but as the normalization of permanent war, prolonged conflicts, blockades, sanctions, and hybrid operations, which make peace a fragile condition, entirely subordinate to the balance of power.
As we can see, the ongoing transition can lead to a conflictive multipolarity, but it also opens avenues for redefining rules from non-subordinate perspectives. In this sense, both the World Economic Forum and the Munich Security Conference express an attempt to reorganize hegemony in a world where consensus is meaningless unless accompanied by force.
From the Global South, understanding this shift is a strategic imperative, because when force redefines the norm, sovereignty and self-determination become conditions for survival.
ADDENDUM 1: The ELN’s unilateral ceasefire on this election day is entirely true and will continue until tomorrow, March 10th, at midnight. The truth prevails, and the liars are exposed for what they are, so that we may all remember.
Source: https://eln-voces.net/2026/03/09/la-erosion-del-orden-internacional/
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