Colombia’s government is offering a roughly $700,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of four leaders of a rebel group behind the deadly violence affecting a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela.

Colombia's Attorney General reissued arrest warrants for ELN leaders amid increased violence and displacement in the Catatumbo region. President Petro, seeking peace after decades of conflict, suspended talks following ELN attacks.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday issued a decree that gives him emergency powers to respond to an outbreak of deadly violence between rival armed groups in the north-eastern Catatumbo region.