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While the peace process and divisive politics in Bogotá will be thornier issues, Duque's management of the fiscal deficit will prove tricky even amid rising GDP growth rates.

Peace negotiations between Colombia’s government and the ELN have reached their most precarious moment since they began last year.

Peace talks resumed this week in Havana between the Colombian government and the nation’s remaining guerrilla faction, the National Liberation Army (ELN).

The new generation of Colombian drug lords, dubbed "The Invisibles," realize that their best protection is not a private army — but anonymity.

The report details 439 instances of “corporate complicity” in human rights violations committed by paramilitary groups between 1970 and 2015.

“They say they want peace, but they contradict that fact,” stated President Santos, adding "it will be very difficult to resume the dialogues.”

The abduction reportedly occurred around 7:30 am on the day that the UN head arrived in Colombia to discuss the nation’s peace process.

President Santos recalled the nation's peace negotiator from Ecuador and told the military to "act with force and respond to this ELN aggression."

While the ceasefire is temporary, through January 9, President Santos hopes it can be renewed and become "the first step to achieve peace" with the ELN.

Government negotiators and the ELN had stepped up the urgency to reach an agreement in the lead up to this week’s historic visit by Pope Francis.