Marulanda Velez Comandante in capo delle FARC-EP, in occasione dell'apertura dei dialoghi
En paralelo al proceso de la negociación y de él conversa pero a Colombia el angriness de la guerra se asiste, en la cual los E.E.U.U. están desempeñando un papel preponderante:**time-out** 1600 millón militar ayuda en 2000, ciento militar ciudad consejo miembro pentágono y agente funcionar Cia en colombino territorio, batallón élite tropa nacional tropa (ser implicar directo en innumerevoli matanza perpetrated paramilitarismo estado contra indefenso civil población) entrenar Berretti verde, y uno maniobra militar y logístico envolvimiento alrededor concluir Colombia preparar pista para un.invasione uno multinacional fuerza que, con.il.pretesto della lucha droga tráfico, tener función más demoler de proceso revolucionario y su avanzado expresión, FARC-EP. Y para ése l.intervento de los E.E.U.U. en la verdad de Colombia es ya una, y no una amenaza o hipótesis simple.
Goal is to overthrow government and ruling class.
Colombian security forces Thursday shot and killed Pablo Escobar, the billionaire godfather of international cocaine trafficking, as he attempted to flee his hideout in the drug dealing center of Medellin, Colombia.Authorities said Escobar opened fire and was met by volleys of return fire from some of the dozens of police and troops who had stalked the drug kingpin to a house on the west side of the city of 1.6 million people. "They will have a corner on the market, because no one person will replace Pablo Escobar,"
Raul Reyes
Description
Established in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, the FARC is Colombia's oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped Marxist insurgency. The FARC is governed by a secretariat, led by septuagenarian Manuel Marulanda, a.k.a. "Tirofijo," and six others, including senior military commander Jorge Briceno, a.k.a. "Mono Jojoy." Organized along military lines and includes several urban fronts. In 2000, the group continued a slow-moving peace negotiation process with the Pastrana Administration, which has gained the group several concessions, including a demilitarized zone used as a venue for negotiations.
Activities
Bombings, murder, kidnapping, extortion, hijacking, as well as guerrilla and conventional military action against Colombian political, military, and economic targets. In March 1999 the FARC executed three US Indian rights activists on Venezuelan territory after it kidnapped them in Colombia. Foreign citizens often are targets of FARC kidnapping for ransom. Has well-documented ties to narcotics traffickers, principally through the provision of armed protection.
Strength
Approximately 9,000 to 12,000 armed combatants and an unknown number of supporters, mostly in rural areas.
Location/Area of Operation
Colombia with some activities--extortion, kidnapping, logistics, and R&R--in Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador.
External Aid
Cuba provides some medical care and political consultation.
One such guerrilla band was led by Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda (his real name is Pedro Antonio Marin), who in 1966 baptised his group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Another popular revenue producer is kidnapping for ransom, which FARC Commander Raul Reyes calls a "peace tax." "The government of Colombia and even the United States do the same thing," Reyes said. "If you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail. Here we don't have jails, so we detain people." FARC isn't the only guerrilla group to use kidnapping to raise funds. The smaller National Liberation Army (ELN) is holding at least 50 hostages, including 36 people seized while they were attending mass in an affluent suburb of Cali. The original church kidnapping involved 143 hostages, but the ELN released all but 36. Monsignor Isaias Duarte, archbishop of Cali, excommunicated the guerrillas from the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday because of the kidnapping. Colombian authorities also believe the ELN is responsible for a Venezuelan commercial airliner that disappeared Saturday with 16 people aboard.
