translated from Spanish: Half Colombian questions ELN photo veracity that Ivan Duke brought to the UN

A photo of the dossier that the President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, presented to the UN as evidence on the “penetration of the ELN in schools” of Venezuela and the support of the regime of Nicolás Maduro to illegal armed groups responded to the place or date indicated, a media from his country reported on Thursday (26.09.2019).
The newspaper El Colombiano noted that it obtained from Military Intelligence the photograph in which guerrillas appear playing with children in June 2015 to make an article on recruitment in rural schools of the southwestern department of Cauca.
“In the pdf obtained by El Colombiano you see not only this photo but others in which ELN guerrillas give gifts to children, disguise themselves as clowns and put them to draw,” the newspaper added.
As part of the evidence he brought to the UN on Wednesday, the Colombian representative submitted that photo, allegedly taken in April 2018.
Duque denounced at the UN General Assembly that the Venezuelan regime is part of the chain of “transnational terrorism” put at the service of various illegal armed groups.
“Their corrupt structures are servants of drug cartels, their bishops are Mafia henchmen and fuel violence in Colombia; they shelter murderers and child rapists, and those who ignore these opprobism are complicit in the dictatorship,” he added.
The report also presented “the list of a gang of fewer than 20 criminals who betrayed the generosity of Colombians” in the face of the peace agreement, referring to the group of former FARC guerrilla leaders who retook their arms at the end of August to the you didn’t mention directly.
“We also revealed the location of over 1,400 men in arms belonging to the most dangerous blocks of the ELN (National Liberation Army) and 207 locations controlled by this criminal organization in Venezuelan territory,” he said.
As part of the evidence he mentioned the testimonies of Venezuelan citizens “complaining about the presence of the ELN in their territory”, as well as “the unhidden presence of criminals in training camps, as well as the existence of 20 airstrips to the drug trafficking service.”
On the other hand, the head of state published on his social networks on Thursday apart from the dossier “Threats to democracy, security and regional peace” that he gave to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.
“The ELN delinque in partnership with Venezuelan security agencies, distributes food in the name of the dictatorship and affects Venezuelan and Colombian citizens on both sides of the border boundary. Attention: ELN stamps in food boxes of the regime,” Duque said in a tweet showing the controversial photo.
For its part, the NGO Fundación Redes (Fundaredes) stated today in a statement that in 2013 the director of the entity “received from teachers several photographs of activities carried out by the Colombian guerrillas in rural schools of the Táchira State” (Venezuela).
For the above, “the formal denunciation was made on July 17, 2013 about the penetration of the ELN in schools bordering Colombia where the guerrillas have been presenting themselves in the classroom delivering brochures, magazines, gifts and even joining in activities children,” the NGO continued.
In addition, the organization stated that following its complaint there was “security breach” of the members of Fundaredes to the point that “computer equipment, telephones, cameras and technological equipment were stolen on two occasions”.
Specifically, photography in which several children play with ELN guerrillas stated that “it is part of the material collected by activists (…) in June 2013 in the adjacencies of the Rural School Of The State of Táchira,” which then reached “research and press authorities.”

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