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Colombia: The Truth
Friday, February 22, 2002
(11:03)
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
PRAVDA.Ru
& Juan Blanco
In Colombia

FARC is proud to follow the Marxist-Leninist line, so successful in Cuba, where the education policy has been proved to be the best in the Americas by a UN study, where the public health system is acclaimed worldwide as being an example of excellence, where the government fights to find ways to provide aid for Less Developed Countries, despite the unilateral blockade imposed by the USA, a blockade which extends to all US multinationals around the world.

As the oligarchic government of Andres Pestrana, at the beck and call of the imperialistic USA, unilaterally breaks off the peace talks with FARC and invades the demilitarized zone, FARC explains the real situation in Columbia to Pravda.Ru.

FARC- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Derided by the USA as a bunch of drugs traffickers and terrorists (since September 11th), victimized by the oligarchic fascist government of Columbia, FARC is in fact a political organization forced to take up arms due to the policy of extermination undertaken by the oligarchic regime in Bogota, supported and stimulated by the USA.

The truth could not be further from the international demonizing of FARC, a reflex defensive action, a front put up by those forces which wish to interfere in Columbia’s internal affairs and to capture its wealth. For those who are not aware, there is oil in eastern Columbia.

Three days before the supposed “kidnapping” of a Colombian government Senator, Pravda.Ru received a communication from a contact connected to the FARC chain of command, stating that the Colombian government was about to launch an offensive against FARC controlled positions, at the instigation of the United States of America. An aircraft in which a senator was travelling was indeed forced down, the other passengers being released, and the senator was taken hostage to use as a bargaining token to release FARC prisoners being tortured in Colombian government jails. This however was only after FARC received notification of the impending government offensive, which took place on Thursday 21st February.
(More: Pravda News Source)
2002 © Pravda.RU.

I bit myopic, I would say. Even today, some journalists, like the illustrious team of Bancroft-Hinchey and Blanco, insist “the end will always justify the means,” and this is simply untrue.

Dan