Posted on 12/02/2021 8:17:16 AM PST by george76
A Marxist organization that had been on America’s list of terrorists since 1997 has now had the slate wiped clean by the Biden administration.
FARC, the Spanish acronym of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, “no longer exists as a unified organization that engages in terrorism or terrorist activity or has the capability or intent to do so,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Tuesday.
The foreign terrorist designation makes it a crime to support a group.
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An estimated 260,000 people were killed during the decades when Colombia was fractured by civil war...
As noted by the BBC, former FARC commanders were charged with war crimes after Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace found that 21,396 people had been abducted between 1990 and 2016 as part of FARC’s scheme of kidnapping and torturing victims until ransom was paid, with about 2,000 of them never seen alive again.
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The agreement to drop the terrorist designation was greeted with anger on social media.
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Some Republican politicians also spoke out against the move.
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Rep. Mike McCaul of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called the action “an exercise in appeasement.”
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Colombia has endured decades of pain and suffering because of the vicious terrorist attacks spearheaded by the FARC,” Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida...
“The Biden Administration’s decision to remove the FARC from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list risks emboldening narcoterrorists and the regimes that sponsor them throughout our region,” .
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resident Biden’s decision to remove the FARC from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations will embolden terrorist groups throughout Latin America, empower narco-traffickers and pave the way for Castro-chavismo in Colombia,” Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida
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He doesn’t cower, he does what he’s told. And the bottom line is his handlers just don’t care.
The appeaser in chief. Disgusting.
Don’t overlook the role of the catholic “church” in all this. Recently read an article in which a catholic activist attempted to confront some bishops about, for one thing, whether they believed ChoMoeJoe should be excommunicated, or at least barred from participating in the Eucharist (which you’re not supposed to do in a state of mortal sin). The lady reported getting a bunch of blank stares from these bishops who were participating in a global conclave. Her hypothesis is that she was witnessing demons at work.
I concur.
They are all controlled by China..........................
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