# Petro signs Decree 1117 ordering a bilateral ELN ceasefire from 3 August 2023

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 5 July 2023 President Petro signed Decree 1117, decreeing a bilateral, national, temporary ceasefire with the ELN from 00:00 on 3 August 2023 until 24:00 on 29 January 2024, and ordering the public force to suspend offensive military and police operations against listed ELN members from 6 July.

## Context

The 9 June 2023 Cuba agreement sat as parent. The 31 December 2022 five-group announcement, which the ELN denied, and Decreto 4 of January 2023 sit as earlier neighbours. He did not sit as every checkpoint officer.

Law 2272 is the parent statute. Expiry 3 August 2024 is a later child. Catatumbo 2025 is a later rupture. Keep Petro signs Decree 1117 ordering a bilateral ELN ceasefire from 3 August 2023 on 2023-07-05 separate from neighbouring Law 2272, Decree 1117, the 3 August 2024 ELN ceasefire expiry, the 17 January 2025 talk suspension, Decree 62 of 24 January 2025, and the 7 August 2026 handover.

The president of Colombia is head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief. He can sanction a Total Peace statute, decree a bilateral ceasefire, and declare conmoción interior. He does not sit as an ELN front commander, a Senate committee teller, a CNE precinct printer, or a Venezuelan border clerk.

## Evidence and sources

Presidency of Colombia / Sisjur compilation carries the official instrument or communique. Infobae records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [petro](/people/gustavo-petro)-security-and-eln: a completed ceasefire instrument that paused offensive contact with one group and later expired.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Decree 1117 was signed on 5 July 2023 and set a bilateral ELN ceasefire from 3 August 2023.

Not established: A completed peace, or a unique later national homicide coefficient from the pause.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The ELN delegation had agreed the Cuba protocol. Public-force units implement.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Petro signs Decree 1117 ordering a bilateral ELN ceasefire from 3 August 2023, not a later speech about Petro signs Decree 1117 ordering a bilateral ELN ceasefire from 3 August 2023.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Petro signs Decree 1117 ordering a bilateral ELN ceasefire from 3 August 2023 on 2023-07-05 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of Colombia / Sisjur compilation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Petro signs Decree 1117 ordering a bilateral ELN ceasefire from 3 August 2023 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed the decree as president and commander-in-chief. The ELN delegation had agreed the Cuba protocol. Public-force units implement. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Gustavo Petro: https://factrail.ai/people/gustavo-petro

## Drivers

- Petro-era ELN and domestic security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/petro-security-and-eln

## Sources

- https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2023/07/06/cese-al-fuego-gustavo-petro-firmo-el-decreto-que-ordena-la-suspension-de-operaciones-militares-contra-el-eln/
- https://www.bogotajuridica.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=143697

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/co-petro-decreto-1117-2023