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Colombia: War!
Sunday, February 24, 2002
(11:01)
By Juan Blanco
Pravda.RU

This military intervention is the beginning of a US invasion of the South American continent, hidden behind a cloak of anti-terrorist and anti-drug trafficking activity.

The government of Andres Pestrana has bowed to pressure from the USA and has attacked the positions of FARC in the demilitarized zone, breaking three and a half years of peace talks.

Gesticulating wildly and shouting on a TV program, President Pestrana announced that the Colombian armed forces was unilaterally abandoning the peace process because senator Gechem was kidnapped by FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). Pravda.Ru received a communication from the FARC central command three days before the kidnap, stating that the government was planning to attack. Therefore, this was an excuse, not a reason.

The real reason is the expansionist and imperialistic policy pursued by the United States of America. The reason: oil in eastern Colombia. FARC is an organisation which has a political program for social justice in Colombia, a notion which is extremely difficult to find in South America, where oligarchies corrupted by Washington’s dollars perform acts of terrorism, murder, genocide, torture, rapes and robbery unchecked.

Pestrana’s presidential term coming to an end, with the right-wing opposition candidate Alvaro Uribe, declaring that he is in favor of open conflict with FARC, leading in the opinion polls, this political minion of the USA had to act. He preferred to break the peace process and revert to armed conflict to a continuation of the discussion with FARC over social and political policies to implement a serious government to address the country’s severe problems.
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