Colombia swears in a Marxist guerrilla as president

American Thinker ^ | 8 Aug, 2022 | Olivia Murray

[MtnClimber]

Like sheep led to the slaughter.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” –George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905

Over the course of the 20th Century, murder by communist government acccounted for the deaths of over 100 million people. The brutalities are well known—or should be—there are countless histories of the terror inflicted upon citizens by believers in Marxian doctrine. In fact, the scourge persists still today, most notably in China. Despite the tremendous amount of evidence (both historical and current) detailing the most unspeakable horrors at the hands of men like Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Joseph Stalin, Colombia just agreed to a Marxist takeover by way of the ballot box in the form of a man named Gustavo Petro:

Colombia’s first leftist president will be sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and heralding a turning point in the history of a country haunted by a long war between the government and guerrilla groups.

Petro, 62, has promised to tackle Colombia’s social and economic inequalities [emphasis added] by boosting spending on anti-poverty programs and increasing investment in rural areas.

And just like that, the revolution is afoot. Communistic philosophy relies on polarization; there’s always the aggravation of a class struggle—as Saul Alinsky said, to achieve radical change, one must first ‘rub raw the sores of discontent.’ We’ve seen this inflammatory rhetoric before: Marx’s “bourgeoisie” and “proletariat” and Alinsky’s “Haves” and “Have-nots”, so it should be entirely anticipated.

A report published by France 24 said:

On the campaign trail, Petro had promised during his four-year term to raise taxes on the rich, invest in health care and education, and reform the police[.]

And

Here begins a government that will fight for environmental justice[.]

Sound like any political figures you know?

[MtnClimber]

[Phoenix8]

With a few exceptions Latins of Central and South America seem to have a weakness to move to the radical left. maybe it’s poverty, maybe it’s the Catholic Church???

Wasn’t Chile just a few decades ago seen as a thriving economy and most free market? Now they as well are flirting with socialism.

[ScottinVA]

No matter the death, depredation and misery it brings, Communism still retains a high degree of popularity in Latin America. FARC and the cartels will be making a major comeback in Colombia.

[oblomov]

Colombia and Chile were the two exceptions in LATAM. No longer.

[dljordan]

Latinos = Natural Conservatives. Yeah, right.

[zeestephen]

This is so depressing.

Chile, the most prosperous country in Latin America, just elected an age 30-something neo-Marxist as President about six months ago.

The only consequential, conservative, and pro-American leader left is Bolsonaro, in Brazil.

[hoosierham]

The Catholic Church does seem to favor socialism over responsible freedom.
I fear too many Catholic Church officials wish for the time when they had unchallenged authority.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Here come the Colombia drug “caravans”. If you need anything at Walmart, you better get it now.

[Phoenix8]

Especially this current Pope. Michael Savage swears he is a Marxist.

[srmanuel]

A couple of things to watch out for, you think the Southern border is out of control now, wait until Columbia and Chile and other countries in South America go full communist, 200,000 illegals are crossing every month, that could easily double if not more if things get really bad in South America.

Right now, you have Nicaragua, Columbia, Chile and to a certain degree Argentina and potentially Brazil going communist.

We know AMLO in Mexico is socialist, I’ve always wondered what would happen if Mexico elected someone like Hugo Chavez.

I think this could get really bad and make what’s happening on our Southern Border right now seem like Childs play.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Wasn’t Chile just a few decades ago seen as a thriving economy and most free market? Now they as well are flirting with socialism.***

Again? I thought they learned their lesson with Salvador Allende back in 1973!
You can vote in Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it!

[cowboyusa]

125 Million at least.

[cowboyusa]

The Evanglical Latino is the fastest growing Church in the USA.

[Phoenix8]

From this article “ He had declared that his government would be feminist, and that his cabinet, in a first for Latin America, would be predominately female; fourteen out of twenty-four ministers would be women, including the secretaries of defense and the interior. Two ministers were openly gay. Many of Boric’s officials were young leftists, like himself.” So basically he doesn’t want meritocracy, he wants social justice.

[Phoenix8]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/13/can-chiles-young-president-reimagine-the-latin-american-left

[Vaduz]

Colombia is two years behind what our voters did but will have the same result.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Chile Marxist Guerrilla, meet US Marxist Guerrilla, Joe Biden

[piasa]

1983 : (COLUMBIA : ) FARC’s war on America dates back to 1983 when the Marxist terror group took its first American hostage.

1996 : (COLUMBIA : ) Frank Pescatore, a geologist, was kidnapped and murdered by FARC in 1996. The Marxist terrorists packed his body with lime and formaldehyde and tried to pretend that he was still alive in the hopes of collecting a ransom for him.

1999 spring : (COLUMBIA : ) “Take them across the river and burn them.” That was how the lives of three left-wing American environmental activists had ended in the spring of 1999. Their killers were members of the FARC Marxist terror group. The victims were shot in the face after being tortured.

2015 : (WASHINGTON, DC : -— see COLUMBIA) Obama administration says that it would not seek the extradition of FARC terrorists.