The General Secretary-Chairman has been a solid supporter and ally of the
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) since their official founding in 1964, and even earlier, during their part in the 1950s Colombian Civil War.
On this date sixty years ago, the progressive Liberal politician and Presidential candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was gunned down by rightists (though Wikipedia valiantly keeps alive completely fallacious theories like Fidel Castro being the assassin as a Soviet agent). Thus set off six decades of war that made Colombia's turn-of-the-century Thousand Days War look like a British royal tea party.
And that's how we North Americans and Westerners enjoy our wars. Far away and quite exciting. We don't have to fight them, well except the United States soldiers covertly participating. We just sit back and take sides, and all the better when there are plenty of sides and they appear to stay still despite the tests of time. [Note: The CP(F)'s Bureau of Poppofying will be releasing anniversary editions of our now classic Colombian Civil War board game. Order your child's game today!]
As for the FARC, which cannot disarm at threat of democide by the rightist paramilitarios, we are happy to report that its arcane and intransigent Leninist orthodoxy mirrors our own. The FARC's hoary top leadership has venerably maintained solidly anachronistic policies and strategies for many years now, proving their authenticity.
Bayonet Revolutionary Dynamism! Onwards to Declining Significance!Similarly, we wish to welcome back those Factionalist comrades we had to purge two years ago thanks to their ELN and ERP sympathies. Now that hostilities between these forces have moderated, we will temporarily drop our objections to our comrades' backwards stances.
Labels: colombia, FARC, guerrillas
