Colombia's FARC offers to defend Venezuela in case of a U.S. attack (Translation)

elespectador.com ^ | July 25, 2006 | El Espectador ( translated by self )

[StJacques]

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Colombia's FARC offers to defend Venezuela in case of a U.S. attack (Translation)

The active armed group made its offer to Venezuela to fight against the United States if it eventually invades the nation.

In a document of greetings released by the FARC¹ to the Communist Party of Venezuela, it expressed an unconditional support and gratitude for Venezuelan Communist militancy and spoke of the grandeur of their solidarity.

The message of the armed forces [of the FARC] to Venezuela is explicit: "Count on us if the falcons of Washington arrive to assault the brave people [of Venezuela] and the hope of the continent contained in its revolucion."

The armed group added that, "in the anti-imperialist resistance of the FARC, in its guns and in its ideas it resists alongside the peoples of our America."

It is well known that Hugo Chavez keeps up constant verbal sparring with the government of the United States and fears an eventual military intervention against his country, for reasons of which he has organized and trained the population as military reserves to prepare the defense of its territory.

In the manifesto, the lawless group also communicated that the President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, is an enemby of the Bolivarian Revolution.²

And it expressly added that "Uribe's politics is no more than one of the special imperial tentacles threatening Venezuela."

The insurgent group asserted that "it is evident that the Washington Sepoys³ are conspiring against the Bolivarian Revolution in diverse ways and they have deployed their hired killers of all stripes to the [Venezuelan-Colombian] border who have even penetrated as far as the outer reaches of Caracas."

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Translator's notes:

¹The FARC, an acronym for the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), is a Colombian insurgent group professing a leftist ideology with somewhere between 12,000 to 18,000 men in arms and is, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, "one of the world's richest and most powerful guerilla armies," owing to large profits from their heavy involvement in the drug trade. They were originally organized in 1966 by "Communist militants and peasant self-defense groups." They successfully fought the Colombian government to a standstill in the 1990's, but the Colombian government has since turned on them with a vengeance following the receipt of U.S. aid in the "Colombia Plan," that has since turned the momentum in favor of the government.

²The "Bolvarian Revolution" is a term Hugo Chavez and other South American leftists use to describe their revolutionary program, ostensibly grounded in democratic socialism which they claim has its origins in South American self-determination and radical Catholic Liberation Theology, the religious dogma the Catholic Church has rejected for over twenty years now.

³The "Sepoys" (Spanish "Cipayos) were the native troops trained by the British in India to help them manage their empire in the 19th century. The name has come to be used among the left in South America to refer to any and all native "collaborators" with the "imperialism" they perceive as represented in the policies of the U.S. and other developed nations. The FARC obviously attaches such a label to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who has stood alongside Washington in the War on Terror and who has ridiculed Hugo Chavez in several public speeches, though it seems that recent trade negotiations between the two countries may have eased these tensions somewhat.

[StJacques]

Obviously this is somewhat tongue in cheek for its content, but I do think it is worthwhile to note the affinity the FARC, a very dangerous and destabilizing group who are intimately tied-up in the drug trade, have with our "good friend" Hugo Chavez.

And no; there is no threat whatsoever that the U.S. is going to invade Venezuela. But the presence of this perceived "external threat" is part of the modus operandi of Hugo Chavez.

[livius]

But pleeze don't send us any "environmentalists." Pleeze, pleeze, pleeeeeeze....

[StJacques]

LOL livius! Even the Venezuelans have their problems with others in the left don't they?

[livius]

Well, the fact that it took them less than 24 hours to release the environmentalists they had taken "hostage" reveals something - mostly that nobody was going to pay to get them back!

[StJacques]

Do you know how the Colombians referred to the "environmentalists" in their press reporting? Ambientistas, or "supporters of happiness." I busted out laughing! That's Colombian for "flighty whackos." And it's their "official" name in the country. I love it!

[2111USMC]

"there is no threat whatsoever that the U.S. is going to invade Venezuela."

Damn!

That was the first thing I was thinking of when I got up this morning.

[livius]

Yeah, it's like "capturing" a band of mosquitoes. They're flighty, irritating, and nobody likes them.

I bet the kidnappers thought they were capturing something juicy, like a bunch of oil company personnel ...but - ooooops!

[StJacques]

"I bet the kidnappers thought they were capturing something juicy, like a bunch of oil company personnel ...but - ooooops!"

I can hear those environmentalists now. Yeah, we're with you guys! Where do we sign up? Veeva la re-vo-lu-seeown!

And I can hear the kidnappers talking among themselves too. "¿Juan, esta seguro usted que queremos resguardar à estos maricones? El rubio alla piensa que usted es muy bello."

Ooooops! LOL!

[Alia]

Not to mention how many Universities and colleges did have allegiances to FARC. Newsmax did some good coverage on FARC. I was digging around for something else, kept coming across names of students at various US Universities as "representatives" of FARC. Especially in CA. Who'd a thunk FARC would support Chavez. Peanut Butter & Jelly, anyone?

[tenthirteen]

Just imagine how much fun we could have defoliating Venezuela?

[StJacques]

". . . I was digging around for something else, kept coming across names of students at various US Universities as "representatives" of FARC. Especially in CA. Who'd a thunk FARC would support Chavez. . . ."

Did you know that the FARC has its own American website? It's in Spanish, but it's an American IP address:

http://www.farcep.org/

I have no doubt you are correct in pointing out their American assistance Alia.

[doc1019]

We are now on the “World Stage” trying to save the world from radical islam, why would we care about an insignificant little country like Venezuela? I think we have better things to do … we will get to Hugo Chavez later.

[StJacques]

". . . we will get to Hugo Chavez later."

We will never have need of going after Hugo Chavez. He will be his own undoing. Mark my words! The guy's elevator doesn't reach the top floor.

[doc1019]

If he were not in complete control (dictator) I would agree. However, because he is in complete control of his country and as such, he could cause problems in the near future. Hitler’s elevator didn’t stop at many floors either yet he threatened the entire world. Chavez could ensnare most of South America in his insidious web and, perhaps, be a threat to the rest of the Americas.

Not to mention his latest world wide tour that has, apparently, enthralled the EU …

I personally think that we should keep a close eye on this piece of detritus; he thinks he has a future.

[livius]

queremos resguardar à estos maricones?

LOL! Your scenario is probably dead on. I'm sure there was a hasty conference in terrorist central after that particular catch!

[Alia]

Trust me, lol, I did forward the data to responsible persons when I came across it years back.

What you tell me about FARC is something I do not doubt at all. With PIRG and all the other "student funds" being used by LIBERAL-RUN AND DOMINATED UNIVERSITIES, Finding FARC members was inevitable.

[StJacques]

"Trust me, lol, I did forward the data to responsible persons when I came across it years back."

Well I'm glad to hear that Alia. The FARC is really more of a serious threat to American national security than practically any other indigenous guerrilla group outside of the Middle East. They have provided the armed security the Cali drug cartels have needed to both initiate the mass cultivation of coca in Colombia -- it used to be an overwhelmningly Ecuadorian, Peruvian, and Bolivian crop -- and undertake its processing from paste into finished cocaine, ready for transport to the U.S. I have seen recent stories that some of the Mexican drug cartels have been forming very close ties with the FARC over the past few years and I shudder to think what will happen when the Mexican drug lords adopt the "no holds barred" kind of violence that the FARC has unleashed in Colombia to set themselves up south of our border. It will mean a complete redefinition of the war on drugs. We will actually find ourselves in a position where we will no longer be able to approach it as a police initiative and we will have to simply kill the drug lords.

And in the meantime we'll have to sit and patiently drum our fingers on the table while liberal college professors tell us about the "wellspring of revolutionary impetus" that springs from "the natural socio-economic inequalities of the international capitalist system" that marks the FARC as "a liberating influence, giving hope to the aspirations of the oppressed underclasses throughout Latin America."

Did you know that even the leftist Amnesty International organization has called down the FARC for using rape as a weapon in its struggle in Colombia?

[Alia]

Did you know that even the leftist Amnesty International organization has called down the FARC for using rape as a weapon in its struggle in Colombia?

No, I hadn't. That link you refer to brought me squarely up to date. Thank you.

Shining Path was one thing.. I agree -- FARC is much better armed and dangerous. Over a number of years I was in correspondence with specific authors in Latin America. Through them, I was able to observe the shifting shape of South America. Chavez, Castro's influence. And what, exactly, was Danny Glover bringing to the situation. Most of what was going on barely made a blip, if any, on the US National News -- and it was in fact VERY newsworthy and worrisome. When Chavez got "elected" I considered it along the lines of Al Gore winning the "hanging chad" election. He didn't have FARC and its linked "groups" moving the masses, Al Gore had the US Media doing that for him.

There really is a thin veil which protects the US from the brutality of terrorist regimes existent in other countries. That thin veil has been President Bush's administration.

No, kidding... given what Euro, Americo and transnational thugs had been planning for years.. we were *that* close to seeing the tearing of that veil.

[StJacques]

Well Alia, I'm pleased to meet you. The quick overview you gave me of your long-standing interest in all of this marks you as a truly-informed American.

Just by way of comment, I lived in Colombia for a year and I developed a great love of the country and its people. I lived in the central portion of the country, in the Department of Caldas, the city of Manizales -- pop. 450,000, center of the coffee industry. The people in the region where I lived despised the FARC and, I should add, they did not think much of the ethnic groups the FARC largely relied upon for recruiting, whom the people in the area where I lived did not consider loyal to the country and/or its institutions.

Right now I'm keeping a close watch on the post-election situation down in Mexico, where Lopez Obrador seems to be threatening to tear the country apart given that he has lost a close election and is not exactly committed to the democratic process. There are a number of Freepers who are following this as well. If you go to the Forum's search engine and select the "keyword" search option and type in the unique keyword -- STJTRANSLATION -- you will see a list of threads of articles from Mexican and other Latin American web sites I have translated for the board.

[Alia]

I have lived abroad and am fully aware that what gets reported in the news about other countries is not necessarily reflective of the people of the country and their views. And so I dig into squaring what the News reports with what is actually going down inside a country. Kinda like my being from CA -- the vast majority of Californians are decent people -- it's just that the uber liberals squat in density in a few areas, invite all their pals, and pretend to speak for all Californians. Bah.

I look forwarding to reading your threads on Mexico/Latin America. And I have been keeping a spot eye on the Chavez' clone, Obrado. Thank you, StJacques.