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Marxists support Obama.
This is news?"
Not really magellan, but why don't you and everyone else take a look at this.
From our perspective the prospect of ties between the FARC and the Obama campaign is signficant and of great interest to us for the obvious reasons of its relevance to our current election cycle.
But the Colombians have a different take on the
letter from which the extract is quoted at the beginning of this thread.
The website of the Colombian newspaper
El Espectador, who I trust, has put up
a list of all the FARC documents taken from Raul Reyes' computer. They entitle this one, and we are only viewing one clause of it in the introduction to this thread, "Official Alliance FARC and Government of Ecuador" for list item no. 2 (I'm going to post the English translation from the first link above):
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. . . 2. A summary of the meeting with President Correa's Envoy follows:
a) He asked for a personal meeting in Quito with the Secretariat. He offered assurances and transportation from the border to the meeting place.
b) He expects us to send back a reply as soon as possible, including the meeting date.
c) He asked whether we would like to make this with military support of with support of his minister of state security.
d) He wants to talk to the FARC about the humanitarian agreement, the border policies, the political solution, Ingrid, and Chávez's role. He wants to establish communications with us over the bilateral border.
e) He wants to explain the purposes of Plan Ecuador, through which he intends to offset the harmful effects of Plan Colombia and which is to be implemented over the border.
f) For the purposes of Plan Ecuador, they are asking us for courses on mass organization for people living in the border, which the government would later designate to coordinate work in the border. The advantage in this is the fact that these people are part of the Clandestine Army or in the Bilateral Committee oriented by Front 18.
g) He insisted he is interesting in cooperating with the swap of prisoners, for which he is calling for the release of Moncayo's son or any other prisoner. . . ."
Now it might not get too many of us excited to hear that the government of Ecuador has formed an "official" alliance with the FARC, but I can promise you
it strikes a nerve among Colombians.
We're going to hear a lot more about this in the future. This is not going away quickly. I can smell the coffee boiling all the way up here.
And by the way magellan, good to see you. I've been away a while, my bad!