FARC looks for others to force a deal on Colombia

FARC guerrilla actions 1998-2005Image via Wikipedia

Washington Times:

Colombia's largest insurgent group asked the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to help resolve the country's decades-old political struggle in a open letter published Wednesday.

"Although the government of Colombia has closed the door to dialogue with the insurgency spurred on by the mirage of a military victory and Washington's interference, we want to convey to the Union of Nations of the South, UNASUR, our unyielding determination to seek a political solution to the conflict," said the letter from the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), published in the left-wing New Colombia News Agency (ANNCOL).

The letter, signed by the Secretariat of the General Staff of the FARC, proposed a special UNASUR meeting where the group could present "our vision of the Colombian conflict."

"Peace with social justice, not war for war, has been the strategic goal of the FARC since its inception in 1964," it said, claiming that previous peace talks with the government — held from 1999 to 2002 — had failed "because the oligarchs would not consider any change in the unjust political, economic and social structures that motivate the uprising."

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who took office earlier this month, has said that his government would continue the fight against the FARC and the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN). He demanded that they release all hostages, cease terrorist acts, and stop recruiting children, though he pointedly declined to rule out negotiations with the rebels, saying that "the door to dialogue is not locked."

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The FARC are losing the war inside Colombia and in recent months have been moving their operations outside the country into Venezuela and Ecuador as well as other South American countries. It is now looking for the same countries that are giving them sanctuary to pressure Colombia into a bargain that will allow the miscreants to survive. The most they can ever hope for is a shot at the ballot box if they lay down their arms and turnover their hostages.

Calls for "social justice" are left wing code for the evils of socialism and communism. This should be rejected for the BS it is.
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