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Colombia's "Total Peace" plan faces challenges as armed groups fragment over drug and gold profits, hindering President Petro's peace negotiations.

The assassin, according to media reports, escaped on horseback into the lush mountains behind the housing complex, ending in an almost cinematic killing.

The ELN has violated the agreement at least 39 times over the past year, according to the Colombian think tank, CERAC.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro promised "Total Peace" but criminal groups are using his friendly approach to expand and strengthen.

199 social leaders had been killed so far this year from January to early December.

While Castillo has had no connections to the Odebrecht scandal, he appears to have run very similar schemes within government to those which his predecessors were brought down for.

Fedenaga estimates around 700,000 cattle a year are smuggled, either live or as meat, into Colombia.

Petro warned that the main suspects were the Dagoberto Ramos Mobile Column, an important former FARC front

An investigator reported being offered 100 million Colombian pesos (around $23,000) to hand over case files.

When Duque attended a security meeting in Arauca to discuss security, ELN members appeared openly on the streets of Arauquita, a town not far from the meeting, making a mockery of the administration's efforts.