Posted on 08/23/2010 4:27:19 PM PDT by jazusamo
Marxist rebels' open letter asks South American body to facilitate peace talks
Colombia's largest insurgent group asked the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to help resolve the country's decades-old political struggle in a open letter published Wednesday.
"Although the government of Colombia has closed the door to dialogue with the insurgency spurred on by the mirage of a military victory and Washington's interference, we want to convey to the Union of Nations of the South, UNASUR, our unyielding determination to seek a political solution to the conflict," said the letter from the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), published in the left-wing New Colombia News Agency (ANNCOL).
The letter, signed by the Secretariat of the General Staff of the FARC, proposed a special UNASUR meeting where the group could present "our vision of the Colombian conflict."
"Peace with social justice, not war for war, has been the strategic goal of the FARC since its inception in 1964," it said, claiming that previous peace talks with the government — held from 1999 to 2002 — had failed "because the oligarchs would not consider any change in the unjust political, economic and social structures that motivate the uprising."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
they are losing badly, and their murder of kidnapped victims a couple years ago turned the country against them...over 1 million in the anti FARC demonstrations.
They are essentially drug runners now...and by going to this group they hope the leftists in Argentina and Venezuela etc. will back them...
Looks like the FARC is very weak! Just take out Chavez and the money and weapons he supplies and the FARC will implode within 6 months!
Agreed, they want to negotiate out of desperation.
Thanks. My first reaction to the headline was they must be getting their butts kicked.
Why not ask the OAS for help and not the The Union_of_South_American_Nations, set up by CHAVEZ and his gang of SA COMMIES!
Need a good laugh, please read:
According to the Constitutive Treaty, the Union’s headquarters will be located in Quito, Ecuador. The South American Parliament will be located in Cochabamba, Bolivia, while the headquarters of its bank, the Bank of the South (Dutch: Bank van het Zuiden, Portuguese: Banco do Sul, Spanish: Banco del Sur), are located in Caracas, Venezuela.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations
Aren’t those 44DD belonging to one of Chavez’s Cuban Salsa lapdancers? No wonder he is smiling.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.