Andrew Sage

armed uncertainties in the country by making a deal with the remaining combatant groups, namely the ELN, the dissident bar guerrillas, those who did not agree to the peace deal signed by Santos in 2016, and what's in different terms called the Clan del Golfo or the AGC, the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces, but one of the largest national narco paramilitary group that descends from the old AUC.

And he has

failed in that.

And talks have broken off with those other armed groups.

Colombia has gone back to war against them.

The ELN has engaged in some pretty horrific violence, including a suicide car bombing of police barracks and the dissident FARC as well, taking down a helicopter and a drone attack.

So there has been a return to fairly high-level

you know, armed insurgency in, uh, in Columbia, even if it's nowhere near the level it was from the late nineties and early two thousands.

Right.

Yeah.

And all of this is happening in the Caribbean, which is not a, not a vast ocean, right?

Like they can, it's not a massive area of space.

And Sandra and I were talking about before we recorded, uh,

this has impacted other Caribbean nations, nations which are not the target of the Trump administration's aggression, but nonetheless are being subjected to it.

Do you want to talk, Andrew, Trinidad and Tobago is a particularly, I don't know if interesting is the right word.

It's not a great situation, right?

Because Trinidadian people are being killed, at least two.

And the government is apparently completely unconcerned with this.

Yes.

I suppose I should provide some context.