.
Click on the Blue links please to access the magazine articles :
Wall Street Journal
Colombian Terrorists Want Amnesty for War Crimes
The FARC smears the country’s military to set up a false narrative of moral equivalence.
By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY
February 22, 2015
Colombian Terrorists Want Amnesty for War Crimes
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DC Dispatches
Whitewashing & Policy Laundering Cuban Terrorism
by JASON POBLETE on FEBRUARY 20, 2015
The BEST and STRONGEST condemnation of FARC-Peace
Whitewashing & Policy Laundering Cuban Terrorism
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The Economist Magazine
The last lap in Colombia
Clinching peace depends on persuading the FARC to do jail time
By Michael Reid
Jan 31st 2015 | From the print edition
But they resist the humiliation of their movement that their collective incarceration would imply. Mr Santos’s task is to persuade the FARC to choose pragmatism over pride.
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But striking an agreement on justice, so that the guerrillas demobilise and the conflict formally ends, will take months of hard talking.
Clinching peace depends on persuading the FARC to do jail time
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Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Colombia’s Military and the Peace Process
January 24, 2015
A source told La Silla that of the 52 generals [in the Army], only 6—who he contemptuously called “the princesses” because “they crawled on carpeting since they were little due to their social class”—are in favor of the peace process. The rest have serious objections. Other sources believe that perhaps one-third are in favor of the process. But several agree that, right now, this discomfort is one of the largest threats to the peace process.”
Colombia’s Military and the Peace Process
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How Do You Turn 57,000 Former Militants Into Model Citizens?
By Justin Rohrlich
December 16, 2014
The bulk of the FARC's leadership is wanted in the US on drug trafficking charges, and FARC leaders have said they will not demobilize without a non-extradition guarantee. The ex-FARC rebels I spoke to at the hogar de paz all agreed that the drug trade is too lucrative for the FARC to give up.
Turn 57,000 Former Militants Into Model Citizens?
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Fausta's Blog on Latin America
Considering how Santos wants unelected FARC in Congress, it’s no surprise that many were outraged, among then Uribe,
“Santos has destroyed the self-esteem and initiative of law enforcement, and now he finishes them off by announcing the creation of terrorist police forces”
Colombia: Santos wants former FARC as cops
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The Heritage Foundation
Congressional Oversight Needed as Obama Administration Moves to Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List
By Ana Quintana
January 29, 2015
According to the State Department’s annual terrorism report, the government in Havana continues to support the terrorist Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).[1] While the FARC have been weakened, it is premature to assume that they have been defeated. Throughout the past two years of peace talks in Havana, the FARC has continued to kidnap and kill Colombian civilians and military alike. FARC strongholds still exist throughout the country, and it is widely known that they have sanctuary just across the border in Venezuela. Considering that the FARC has relationships with Islamist terrorist organizations, has murdered a quarter-million Colombians, and has established drug trafficking networks spanning the globe, the threat that it poses is obvious.
Administration Moves to Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List
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Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade
“Terrorist Groups in Latin America: The Changing Landscape”
Testimony of Douglas Farah
February 4, 2014
What I can say, after watching multiple peace processes in Central America and West Africa, that almost every armed group that has negotiated an end to a conflict have maintained clandestine armed structures and logistical pipelines that almost immediately morph into criminal enterprises. This was true of the Sandinistas and the Contras in Nicaragua; the FMLN and far right groups in El Salvador; the RUF in Sierra Leone; and the paramilitary structure of Charles Taylor in Liberia. One would have to extremely naïve to believe that the FARC, which as existed for almost 50 years as a subversive, clandestine organization already deeply involved in criminal enterprises, will not do exactly the same thing. This will present an enormous danger to Colombia, its neighbors and the United States.
Terrorist Groups in Latin America : FARC
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Awakening the PanAmerican Vision in the Republican Party
Presidential Aspirants Should Focus on Our Own Backyard
JANUARY 19, 2015 AT 9:30 AM
By Chuck Warren
Any Republican presidential candidate should have a plan about how to combat terrorism, not just in the Middle East, but also here in the Western Hemisphere. For instance, he should have a plan for helping Colombia defeat FARC, helping Peru shut down the Shining Path guerrilla, and combating the large drug cartels that have set up shop in Mexico. In each of these cases, the violence of the terrorists or narco-terrorist groups spills over the borders and into other countries. A Republican presidential candidate who wants to be seen as forward thinking and dynamic will put these groups on notice and have a plan in place to weaken or destroy them.
Awakening the PanAmerican Vision in the Republican Party
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Terrorist State Designation or Not, Obama Administration Negotiates With Communist Cuba
Posted by: Javier Manjarres on January 20, 2015
Of course Obama negotiates with terrorists.
Why is everyone making such a big deal about Obama “normalizing” relations with Communist Cuba and its murdering, FARC-supporting, Sandinista-Loving, drug-trafficking, partners of Venezuela’s bird-whisperer, and human rights offending Castro brothers?
Incredibly, Cuba is not on the list of countries that are designated as terrorist states, but now The State Department has taken it upon itself to review the countries “terror designation.”
Foreign Policy Magazine
Has Support for Colombia’s Peace Talks Finally Failed?
By Jose R. Cardenas. Cardenas was acting assistant administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the George W. Bush Administration
December 16, 2014
Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry passed through Bogotá, where he re-affirmed the strong U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship and the Obama administration’s support for peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the narco-terrorist Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), who have wreaked havoc on the country for some five decades. Both Kerry and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said all the expected things about how everyone supports peace, but the unmistakable elephant in the room was that, two years on, the Colombian people’s confidence that the talks can achieve any meaningful solution is declining.
Foreign Policy Mag - Colombia's Peace Talks Finally Failed ?
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Comments and Excerpts to the Wall Street Journal "A Dangerous Deal-Sweetener in Colombia", written by Mary Anastasia O'Grady :
But president Juan Manuel Santos is intent on leaving a legacy as the president who ended “the longest-running conflict in the hemisphere.” Cynic that I am, he’s probably hankering for a Nobel Peace Prize.
It’s hard to ignore the possibility that Cuba and the FARC are toying with the president’s ego.
Fifteen months ago, Santos was saying he was amenable to granting unelected guerrilla leaders seats in Congress. He has become enough of a tool to destroy democracy in the process.
Fausta Blog comments to article by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in WSJ
More Comments to the Wall Street Journal "Deal-Sweetener", Forum Reddit
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PanAmPost
2014: When the 21st Century Began
Cuba Dialogue to Middle East Chaos, a New Paradigm
Antón Toursinov, December 24, 2014
Meanwhile, personal grudges and the desire for revenge have meant that terrorists – now named “defenders of human rights” – have been active countries throughout the region. In Guatemala, despite the prevailing peace established in 1996, former guerillas, now occupying all public institutions, are challenging the logic and common sense of previous legal judgements.
The most striking case is their attempt to challenge the reality of the 1980 burning of the Spanish embassy. Conscience and shame have their price. Proof of that is the NGO business of human rights, maintained with millions of dollars of international donations, and based on violence, misery and betrayal. But it’s Colombia that has set the best example for Latin America, with the march of thousands against negotiations with the FARC terrorists. Ordinary citizens showed that they won’t tolerate the offer of impunity for FARC, through which the guerillas are hoping to avoid paying for crimes.
Antón Toursinov
Strong critic of the Guatemala Peace Solution because of Impunity
Antón Toursinov has a PhD in philology and chairs the linguistics postgraduate program at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala. His research area is discourse analysis, focusing on argumentation and manipulation within political discourse.
Antón A. Toursinov
@atoursinov
Advisor for the Office of Forensic Linguistics for Spain and Latin America / Researcher
PanAmPost : Antón Toursinov, December 24, 2014
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WSJ Op-Ed: The U.S.-Cuba Deal Heightens the Spy Threat
by FROM THE EDITORS on JANUARY 13, 2015 ·
An excerpt from op-ed by Jason and Yleem Poblete that was published this morning in the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
The Pobletes are conservative intellectuals against Communism. They are Republicans but highly respected by Democrats. Great friends of Democratic Latin America and Colombia, enemies of FARC. They have denounced the FARC peace of JM Santos that they consider a "Faux Peace".
WSJ Op-Ed: The U.S.-Cuba Deal Heightens the Spy Threat
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Venezuela Prepares for Unrest,
Epoch Times - Joshua Philipp and Luís Novaes, January 6, 2015
“The faithful who still scream ‘homeland, socialism or death. We will win!,’ are those high-ranking officers who financially benefit from drug trafficking with FARC [Colombia’s left-wing guerrillas, who are heavily involved in drug trafficking to the United States and Europe], with whom they have close relations,” Salgueiro said.
“Those generals are known in Venezuela as the ‘Cartel Suns’ [these generals wear an emblem of the sun on their uniform in place of the customary star] and participate in major corruption schemes” long known to U.S. intelligence, she said.
Epoch Times - Joshua Philipp and Luís Novaes, January 6, 2015
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In Sight Crime
Latin America Organized Crime: What to Expect in 2015
Jeremy McDermott, 31 December 2014
But after speaking to rebel sources, InSight Crime is not convinced that an agreement is imminent. While guerrilla-initiated violence may be reduced, revenue-raising from drug trafficking and extortion is likely to increase, as the FARC divert resources from waging war into building up their finances in anticipation of any deal.
In Sight Crime - Jeremy McDermott
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The Buffalo News - William L. Marcy, Ph.D. - December 31, 2014
Cuba’s intelligence service, the DGI, continues to support terrorism. In 2013, Cuba was caught delivering banned missile technology to North Korea. Cuba remains a safe haven for Colombian FARC guerrillas. The relocation of the Colombian-FARC peace process from Oslo to Havana gave the DGI the ability to manipulate the peace process. Venezuela and Cuba remain client states. Venezuela’s military and intelligence services, in coordination with the DGI, have been accused of providing assistance to Middle Eastern terrorists and facilitating the transport of cocaine into the United States.
The Buffalo News - William L. Marcy, Ph.D
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Strategy Page - Colombia: The Obstacle To The Peace Everyone Wants - December 25, 2014 - Excerpt :
The resumed FARC peace talks are again stalled by the popular opposition to amnesty for FARC leaders. This is becoming a major problem as FARC is adamant about how essential it is for there to be more amnesty for FARC leaders and veteran fighters. Most Colombians, especially the many victims of FARC, insist that FARC members answer for their crimes. If this were done a lot of the FARC members could be subject to prosecution and are not about to surrender and disarm to face that.
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Many rebels are willing to end the decades of violence and disarm, but many in the leadership are subject to prosecution for the crimes (murder, rape, kidnapping and sundry acts of violence and theft) they have committed during their years with FARC.
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Many Colombians are willing to let the war (which the leftist rebels have been losing for the past decade) go on rather than let so many of the rebels “get away with murder.” Until this issue is revolved the peace talks are, in effect, stalled.
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The military leaders believe that it the negotiations deadlocked the leftist rebels could be crushed by force, but this would cause thousands of casualties among the security forces and the civilian population. That approach could last another five or ten years before the leftists were reduced to the status of “nuisance” (like some violent European leftists now are).
Strategy Page - Colombia: The Obstacle To The Peace Everyone Wants
Click on the Blue links please to access the magazine articles :
Wall Street Journal
Colombian Terrorists Want Amnesty for War Crimes
The FARC smears the country’s military to set up a false narrative of moral equivalence.
By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY
February 22, 2015
Colombian Terrorists Want Amnesty for War Crimes
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DC Dispatches
Whitewashing & Policy Laundering Cuban Terrorism
by JASON POBLETE on FEBRUARY 20, 2015
The BEST and STRONGEST condemnation of FARC-Peace
Whitewashing & Policy Laundering Cuban Terrorism
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The Economist Magazine
The last lap in Colombia
Clinching peace depends on persuading the FARC to do jail time
By Michael Reid
Jan 31st 2015 | From the print edition
But they resist the humiliation of their movement that their collective incarceration would imply. Mr Santos’s task is to persuade the FARC to choose pragmatism over pride.
**********
But striking an agreement on justice, so that the guerrillas demobilise and the conflict formally ends, will take months of hard talking.
Colombia’s Military and the Peace Process
January 24, 2015
A source told La Silla that of the 52 generals [in the Army], only 6—who he contemptuously called “the princesses” because “they crawled on carpeting since they were little due to their social class”—are in favor of the peace process. The rest have serious objections. Other sources believe that perhaps one-third are in favor of the process. But several agree that, right now, this discomfort is one of the largest threats to the peace process.”
Colombia’s Military and the Peace Process
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How Do You Turn 57,000 Former Militants Into Model Citizens?
By Justin Rohrlich
December 16, 2014
The bulk of the FARC's leadership is wanted in the US on drug trafficking charges, and FARC leaders have said they will not demobilize without a non-extradition guarantee. The ex-FARC rebels I spoke to at the hogar de paz all agreed that the drug trade is too lucrative for the FARC to give up.
Turn 57,000 Former Militants Into Model Citizens?
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Fausta's Blog on Latin America
Considering how Santos wants unelected FARC in Congress, it’s no surprise that many were outraged, among then Uribe,
“Santos has destroyed the self-esteem and initiative of law enforcement, and now he finishes them off by announcing the creation of terrorist police forces”
Colombia: Santos wants former FARC as cops
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The Heritage Foundation
Congressional Oversight Needed as Obama Administration Moves to Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List
By Ana Quintana
January 29, 2015
According to the State Department’s annual terrorism report, the government in Havana continues to support the terrorist Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC).[1] While the FARC have been weakened, it is premature to assume that they have been defeated. Throughout the past two years of peace talks in Havana, the FARC has continued to kidnap and kill Colombian civilians and military alike. FARC strongholds still exist throughout the country, and it is widely known that they have sanctuary just across the border in Venezuela. Considering that the FARC has relationships with Islamist terrorist organizations, has murdered a quarter-million Colombians, and has established drug trafficking networks spanning the globe, the threat that it poses is obvious.
Administration Moves to Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List
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Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade
“Terrorist Groups in Latin America: The Changing Landscape”
Testimony of Douglas Farah
February 4, 2014
What I can say, after watching multiple peace processes in Central America and West Africa, that almost every armed group that has negotiated an end to a conflict have maintained clandestine armed structures and logistical pipelines that almost immediately morph into criminal enterprises. This was true of the Sandinistas and the Contras in Nicaragua; the FMLN and far right groups in El Salvador; the RUF in Sierra Leone; and the paramilitary structure of Charles Taylor in Liberia. One would have to extremely naïve to believe that the FARC, which as existed for almost 50 years as a subversive, clandestine organization already deeply involved in criminal enterprises, will not do exactly the same thing. This will present an enormous danger to Colombia, its neighbors and the United States.
Terrorist Groups in Latin America : FARC
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Awakening the PanAmerican Vision in the Republican Party
Presidential Aspirants Should Focus on Our Own Backyard
JANUARY 19, 2015 AT 9:30 AM
By Chuck Warren
Any Republican presidential candidate should have a plan about how to combat terrorism, not just in the Middle East, but also here in the Western Hemisphere. For instance, he should have a plan for helping Colombia defeat FARC, helping Peru shut down the Shining Path guerrilla, and combating the large drug cartels that have set up shop in Mexico. In each of these cases, the violence of the terrorists or narco-terrorist groups spills over the borders and into other countries. A Republican presidential candidate who wants to be seen as forward thinking and dynamic will put these groups on notice and have a plan in place to weaken or destroy them.
Awakening the PanAmerican Vision in the Republican Party
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Terrorist State Designation or Not, Obama Administration Negotiates With Communist Cuba
Posted by: Javier Manjarres on January 20, 2015
Of course Obama negotiates with terrorists.
Why is everyone making such a big deal about Obama “normalizing” relations with Communist Cuba and its murdering, FARC-supporting, Sandinista-Loving, drug-trafficking, partners of Venezuela’s bird-whisperer, and human rights offending Castro brothers?
Incredibly, Cuba is not on the list of countries that are designated as terrorist states, but now The State Department has taken it upon itself to review the countries “terror designation.”
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Foreign Policy Magazine
Has Support for Colombia’s Peace Talks Finally Failed?
By Jose R. Cardenas. Cardenas was acting assistant administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the George W. Bush Administration
December 16, 2014
Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry passed through Bogotá, where he re-affirmed the strong U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship and the Obama administration’s support for peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the narco-terrorist Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), who have wreaked havoc on the country for some five decades. Both Kerry and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said all the expected things about how everyone supports peace, but the unmistakable elephant in the room was that, two years on, the Colombian people’s confidence that the talks can achieve any meaningful solution is declining.
Foreign Policy Mag - Colombia's Peace Talks Finally Failed ?
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Comments and Excerpts to the Wall Street Journal "A Dangerous Deal-Sweetener in Colombia", written by Mary Anastasia O'Grady :
But president Juan Manuel Santos is intent on leaving a legacy as the president who ended “the longest-running conflict in the hemisphere.” Cynic that I am, he’s probably hankering for a Nobel Peace Prize.
It’s hard to ignore the possibility that Cuba and the FARC are toying with the president’s ego.
Fifteen months ago, Santos was saying he was amenable to granting unelected guerrilla leaders seats in Congress. He has become enough of a tool to destroy democracy in the process.
Fausta Blog comments to article by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in WSJ
More Comments to the Wall Street Journal "Deal-Sweetener", Forum Reddit
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PanAmPost
2014: When the 21st Century Began
Cuba Dialogue to Middle East Chaos, a New Paradigm
Antón Toursinov, December 24, 2014
Meanwhile, personal grudges and the desire for revenge have meant that terrorists – now named “defenders of human rights” – have been active countries throughout the region. In Guatemala, despite the prevailing peace established in 1996, former guerillas, now occupying all public institutions, are challenging the logic and common sense of previous legal judgements.
The most striking case is their attempt to challenge the reality of the 1980 burning of the Spanish embassy. Conscience and shame have their price. Proof of that is the NGO business of human rights, maintained with millions of dollars of international donations, and based on violence, misery and betrayal. But it’s Colombia that has set the best example for Latin America, with the march of thousands against negotiations with the FARC terrorists. Ordinary citizens showed that they won’t tolerate the offer of impunity for FARC, through which the guerillas are hoping to avoid paying for crimes.
Antón Toursinov
Strong critic of the Guatemala Peace Solution because of Impunity
Antón Toursinov has a PhD in philology and chairs the linguistics postgraduate program at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala. His research area is discourse analysis, focusing on argumentation and manipulation within political discourse.
Antón A. Toursinov
@atoursinov
Advisor for the Office of Forensic Linguistics for Spain and Latin America / Researcher
PanAmPost : Antón Toursinov, December 24, 2014
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WSJ Op-Ed: The U.S.-Cuba Deal Heightens the Spy Threat
by FROM THE EDITORS on JANUARY 13, 2015 ·
An excerpt from op-ed by Jason and Yleem Poblete that was published this morning in the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
The Pobletes are conservative intellectuals against Communism. They are Republicans but highly respected by Democrats. Great friends of Democratic Latin America and Colombia, enemies of FARC. They have denounced the FARC peace of JM Santos that they consider a "Faux Peace".
WSJ Op-Ed: The U.S.-Cuba Deal Heightens the Spy Threat
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Venezuela Prepares for Unrest,
Epoch Times - Joshua Philipp and Luís Novaes, January 6, 2015
“The faithful who still scream ‘homeland, socialism or death. We will win!,’ are those high-ranking officers who financially benefit from drug trafficking with FARC [Colombia’s left-wing guerrillas, who are heavily involved in drug trafficking to the United States and Europe], with whom they have close relations,” Salgueiro said.
“Those generals are known in Venezuela as the ‘Cartel Suns’ [these generals wear an emblem of the sun on their uniform in place of the customary star] and participate in major corruption schemes” long known to U.S. intelligence, she said.
Epoch Times - Joshua Philipp and Luís Novaes, January 6, 2015
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In Sight Crime
Latin America Organized Crime: What to Expect in 2015
Jeremy McDermott, 31 December 2014
But after speaking to rebel sources, InSight Crime is not convinced that an agreement is imminent. While guerrilla-initiated violence may be reduced, revenue-raising from drug trafficking and extortion is likely to increase, as the FARC divert resources from waging war into building up their finances in anticipation of any deal.
In Sight Crime - Jeremy McDermott
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The Buffalo News - William L. Marcy, Ph.D. - December 31, 2014
Cuba’s intelligence service, the DGI, continues to support terrorism. In 2013, Cuba was caught delivering banned missile technology to North Korea. Cuba remains a safe haven for Colombian FARC guerrillas. The relocation of the Colombian-FARC peace process from Oslo to Havana gave the DGI the ability to manipulate the peace process. Venezuela and Cuba remain client states. Venezuela’s military and intelligence services, in coordination with the DGI, have been accused of providing assistance to Middle Eastern terrorists and facilitating the transport of cocaine into the United States.
The Buffalo News - William L. Marcy, Ph.D
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Strategy Page - Colombia: The Obstacle To The Peace Everyone Wants - December 25, 2014 - Excerpt :
The resumed FARC peace talks are again stalled by the popular opposition to amnesty for FARC leaders. This is becoming a major problem as FARC is adamant about how essential it is for there to be more amnesty for FARC leaders and veteran fighters. Most Colombians, especially the many victims of FARC, insist that FARC members answer for their crimes. If this were done a lot of the FARC members could be subject to prosecution and are not about to surrender and disarm to face that.
...............
Many rebels are willing to end the decades of violence and disarm, but many in the leadership are subject to prosecution for the crimes (murder, rape, kidnapping and sundry acts of violence and theft) they have committed during their years with FARC.
...............
Many Colombians are willing to let the war (which the leftist rebels have been losing for the past decade) go on rather than let so many of the rebels “get away with murder.” Until this issue is revolved the peace talks are, in effect, stalled.
......................
The military leaders believe that it the negotiations deadlocked the leftist rebels could be crushed by force, but this would cause thousands of casualties among the security forces and the civilian population. That approach could last another five or ten years before the leftists were reduced to the status of “nuisance” (like some violent European leftists now are).
Strategy Page - Colombia: The Obstacle To The Peace Everyone Wants
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Newsmax : National Security Zone : Luis Fleischman : 23 Dec 2014 - Excerpt :
Cuba continues to send military advisers to Venezuela where they assist in developing Venezuela’s repressive apparatus and totalitarian state.
Venezuela itself harbors members of Hezbollah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Basque guerilla group ETA.
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Likewise, Cuban military officers work together with Venezuelan military, drug cartels and the FARC. It has also been reported that Cuba trains Venezuelan guerillas and Para-military that terrorize the Venezuelan population.
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Selous Foundation : Daniel Greenfield :
"Cuba supports the FARC leftist narco-terrorists" "FARC took its own American hostages who were starved and beaten, tortured and abused."
"Cuba supports the FARC leftist narco-terrorists" "FARC took its own American hostages who were starved and beaten, tortured and abused."
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National Review : Yleem and Jason Poblete - Excerpt :
"FARC, despite the faux peace process in Havana the past few months, continues to carry out violent acts in Colombia, has no plans to lay down arms anytime soon, and has links to al-Qaeda".
"Yleem Poblete former chief of staff of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee"
"FARC, despite the faux peace process in Havana the past few months, continues to carry out violent acts in Colombia, has no plans to lay down arms anytime soon, and has links to al-Qaeda".
"Yleem Poblete former chief of staff of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee"
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Wall Street Journal : Mary Anastasia O'Grady :
"No wonder many Colombians remain unconvinced that the country can rid itself of gangster terror through negotiations without sacrificing freedom."
Wall Street Journal - Mary Anastasia O'Grady
"No wonder many Colombians remain unconvinced that the country can rid itself of gangster terror through negotiations without sacrificing freedom."
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Mmarches and Demonstrations against FARC in Cuba, asked in Extradition by USA :
BBC News :
BBC News - Farc 'amnesty': Colombian marchers reject 'impunity'
Mmarches and Demonstrations against FARC in Cuba, asked in Extradition by USA :
BBC News :
BBC News - Farc 'amnesty': Colombian marchers reject 'impunity'
PanAmerican Post :
PanAm Post - No Mercy for FARC “People’s Army” in Nationwide Protests
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Lars Larson in a Forum of "The Economist" about FARC and Colombia - November 7, 2014 - Excerpt :
But democrats and peace loving people should understand that the core leaders of the FARC do not want peace but impose their will through wathever means they have at their disposal. Negociators should make sure the FARC are defanged in any peace agreement, as they and their cuban allies will try to preserve their capacity to rebound after "peace" is signed.
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Nobody wants "peace" if this enables the FARC to survive in another disguise. Of course the dificulty is that the FARC are far from dumb. They have been weakened but will not accept to sign an agreement which gives the democratic colombian government a definitive upper hand, unless forced to sign it. And neither will Cuba, the real master of the game.
This is a request from Colombian people to ask you to stop supporting the false peace process in Colombia.
Presidency of the Council of the European Union Jan-Jun 2015
Ref. : COLOMBIANS CLAIM FOR PEACE WITHOUT IMPUNITY!
Mr. Laimdota Straujuma - Latvia
Mr. President,
Receive a cordial greeting from the Colombian citizens.
This is a request from Colombian people to ask you to stop supporting the false peace process in Colombia.
Please read carefully the reasons that motivate us to write to you and thank you for your attention:
As you might know, in Colombia, FARC, the biggest narco-terrorist in the world which owns the greatest Cartel of the world, had killed thousands of Colombians for 50 years and keep destroying our land and keep killing our soldiers and citizens, as well as the recruitment of children for their war purpose. These children are also sexually abused.
How can be possible that most of European Presidents and heads of state had given their agreement for signing a "false peace agreement" with the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, a "peace agreement" born sick and that is not other than the unconditional surrender of our country in this organization of terrorists and drugs dealers.
Vicente Duque
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