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In reply to the discussion: Report: CIA has helped Colombia kill dozens of rebel leaders [View all]Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)28. Guerrilla armies take their funds where they can obtain them.
Not saying it's a good thing, just a fact of life. Ask the Contras. Ask the factions in the Lebanese civil war. Ask the Viet Cong (and for that matter ask the French in Vietnam and later the CIA). Or for that matter, ask the rightist Colombian paramilitaries.
The FARC refers to the kidnappings as the taking of political prisoners to pay war taxes. Kinda harsh, I suppose, but must be seen in the context of a decades-long civil war where non-upper middle class people have been killed, imprisoned, and turned into refugees by the hundreds of thousands.
Interestingly, the rightist Colombian government is at this very moment engaged in serious peace negotiations with these "terrorists."
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That's all well and good, but Maduro picked his nose with his left index-finger
Alamuti Lotus
Dec 2013
#7
The Ugly Side Of American Empire - So Much For All That Promised Obama Transparency
cantbeserious
Dec 2013
#8
Doesnt surprise me. But doesnt really bother me either. They'd just turn Columbia into Venezuela.
7962
Dec 2013
#14
Well, in Columbia, considering the fact that they carry out attacks and kill a lot of people, sure.
7962
Dec 2013
#17
Did Covert U.S. Program Targeting Rebel Leaders Help Undermine Colombia’s Peace Process?
Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
#20
No just ones who keep in business by kidnapping and guarding cocaine production. nt
EX500rider
Dec 2013
#26
Now they are nothing more than a criminal gang living off of drugs and kidnapping
hack89
Dec 2013
#27
Wildly off track, either through ignorance, or because of intentional misrepresentation.
Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
#31
For anyone who's in the dark concerning the Colombian paramilitary death squads:
Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
#34