Now Obama is the gay, Muslim terrorist president.

For a long time.

There have been prominent individuals in the local and national governments of Colombia as well as in the courts who have been explicitly in favor of homosexuality, without that meaning they are "the left" either. It's rather unnecessary to mix all people like that.

But a lot of water has gone under that bridge, both for better and for worse.

It is inaccurate to equate support for military units associated with paramilitary squads in 1996 with any current support for the neo-paramilitary groups of Aguilas Negras who are making these threats against the school children of Bogotá in the year 2014.

I realize it's tempting and surely easier to just wrap everything up in a giant blob of evil called "the right" and ignore the details though.

"The U.S. has supported allies of the predecessors of said groups."

Cool I guess everything is in order then. Moving along.

from the OP, their pamphlet reads “This is the end of communist, homosexual students, immoral swines and rapists.”

although all human rights groups, and others have made statements that they are nothing other than the AUC, reorganized into smaller groups with new names.

The AUC, if you are familiar with it, has been shown, through court testimonies (sometimes by former paras who were murdered after testifying) for years and years, to have been joined at the hip to the Colombian military, which you know IS deeply funded by US hard-earned taxdollars.

Court trials have been going on for years regarding this unsavory alliance, the paras have been considered the adjunct group which would handle the truly evil work the Colombian military didn't want to associate its name with, although in some massacres, it has been testified various Colombian military personel actually did wade in a participate along with the paras.

In some cases they were known to surround towns and keep traffic out, and the citizens in while the paras did their "magic," sometimes taking human beings apart with chain saws for dramatic effect, and to create terror, as a psychological trauma which would last far longer to Colombians who heard about it: a good way to paralyze people with fear at a distance to keep them so frightened they wouldn't dare rise up against you.

Investigations are still going on regarding current Colombian military personel, extremely high ranking, and their ties to the former paras.

Same guys in the new paramilitary groups, just the names of the groups have changed. They pursue the same goals, and achieve them the same way. Everything is exactly the same except for the names.

As citizens stand idly by and silent.

But the situation has been complicated, in many ways, since even the former AUC was never a monolithic entity. It was an umbrella alliance of drug lords and other parties, with connections to the Colombian military and, by extension, yes, with the U.S. government, that tried to present themselves as having a central command as well as an unified political project.

Yet the demobilization process, while definitely never complete and partial, did lead to more than just a "renaming" in practice if you actually do read up on various reports that not only chronicle their continuing human rights abuses but also what has happened in the places where they turned against one another. There has been in-fighting and splitting up of the different factions.

In some areas it's true nothing has changed, as you have pointed out, but in others things did vary. Colombia has room for multiple realities in a large and diverse country, not just one vague generalization or single narrative that is applicable to every single part of it.

The majority of the old paramilitary leaders have been extradited to the United States as part of a process that they themselves considered to be a betrayal. The subordinates and the ones remaining behind then engaged in a struggle for power and did not even attempt to create any sort of overarching structure as a result.

Then you also have the fact that the parapolitics scandal has resulted in several of their former allies being jailed, killed or otherwise turning against their previous allegiances. Don't you think that has an effect?

The new groups obviously include among them those that never demobilized, but to say that there is no difference is simplistic.

and put the US business-friendly people in power.

Thank you for the kind little furry image. They make the world far more beautiful.

This is like some game of extremism... let's see who can be more sick.

Notice the communists are listed first, which implies they see the real enemy are Communists not homosexuals. Furthermore if this group had to choose between a group of homosexuals raping young children and a group of peaceful Communists having a teach in, they go after the Commies every time.

Side note: I know they are people who will be upset about me making a reference to homosexuals raping children, I am NOT saying that is the case, but that IF such a group of Homosexuals existed in Columbia and were raping children and this group were told of it AND of a peaceful communist teach in, it is the peaceful communist teach in that they would opt to attack. This groups real enemy are the Communists not Homosexuals.

in Latin America, after Ronald Reagan claimed to have conquered communism, they no longer had any excuse to get violent with the poor of the Americas who were suffering from brutal right-wing overlords, so they started having to accuse them of either being "terrorists" or being "drug traffickers."

That oughta take care of the situation. Some of them attained the rare distinction of being designated as drug-trafficking terrorists, but that only applied to the leftists, not the ultra violent ones who, as human rights groups like Amnesty have stated, are responsible for the "lion's share" of the violence in Colombia, or, combined with the military, the vast majority of the violence. Violence by the right is ALWAYS overlooked by the corporate media. Violence perpetrated by the right, or military, and blamed on the left has always remained blamed on the left in corporate media, even when the truth has surfaced.

It's a true miracle the story finally made it to US "news" sources that the Colombian military has been employed for ages murdering simple citizens in Colombia, then arranging their bodies on the ground, along with guns they place beside them for the photo, and claimed as "rebels" in order to use them as proof of enemies downed in fighting. They are called "false polsitives."

This had been going on for many years before it finally was acknowledged in corporate media. The news seemed like "news" to some, but others knew it was more properly termed "real olds."

Unless you believe the truth is something like this:

On the one hand, you have the heroic left-wing who does nothing but heroically sacrifice themselves for the poor!

On the other hand, you have the evil right-wing who does nothing but exclusively oppress the poor!

The corporate media is surely full of bias, yet there is still room for a lot of realities that do not fit either statement above.

For instance, there have been many brutal acts carried out without any political affiliation, but that doesn't mean they aren't important. Or how there have even been paramilitaries who have defected to the guerrillas and guerrillas who have defected to the paramilitaries. War is hell, and it's also a huge mess.

Everything after the word "Communist" was to make the Communists more evil in their own eyes, then an attack on Homosexuals. Yes, people in this group would kill Homosexuals, but they will go after Communists way before they go after Homosexuals, no matter how "Good" are the Commies and how "Bad" are the Homosexuals.