OE Watch Commentary: The accompanying references are exemplary among many reports that seem to indicate that armed conflict in Colombia is intensifying, especially in border areas. Many of the reports are about Colombian Army confrontations with units of the People’s Liberation Army (ELN). The reports suggest that the ELN apparently expanded in some border areas at the expense of FARC formations that had been dismantled or had lost territorial control in the context of the power sharing agreement with the Colombian government. However, as the reference from Radio La FM suggests, some of the FARC dissident groups are apparently now openly reorganizing and reasserting themselves as guerilla. In any case, it may be that the border areas under dispute are the same as those that had been fought over for decades. They are the contraband corridors where the preferred clandestine lines of communication are maintained. End OE Watch Commentary (Demarest)