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Bogota - Commemorating 45
years since its foundation the Colombian
Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) insist
that peace is its strategy and armed
movement its tactic to achieve it.
In a communique dated in May from the
Colombian mountains, the FARC pointed out
that the dignity of Colombians and recovery
of love for the homeland demand a new
leadership that promotes unity and socialism
in its move to the future.
The insurgent group also expresses that it
is time to overcome the "national shame of
an illegitimate and illegal government, a
generator of death and poverty. A government
that is supported by Washington that acts to
perpetuate war and discord while
guaranteeing, with blood and fire,
investment security of the transnationals
that plunder our resources."
"An unpatriotic regime that, in spite of the
large number of US troops that intervene in
the internal conflict in Colombia it allows
our sacred soil to be trodden by more
foreign troops expelled from Manta in
Ecuador, allowing the United States to
operate a base of aggression here to attack
fraternal peoples of the continent," it
explains.
FARC adds in its communique that the current
narco-paramilitary government "is not shamed
by the confession of paramilitary capos that
they financed the presidential campaigns of
Alvaro Uribe."
The Colombia of today no longer wants the
ultramodern warmongering of the government.
It wants solutions to growing unemployment
and poverty. It demands social investment.
It also asks for education, housing, health
services, drinking water, worker's rights,
land, roads, electricity, telephone and
communication services, markets for
products, re-nationalization of companies
that were privatized, punishment of
corruption, sovereignty of the people,
protection of the environment, true
democracy, freedom of opinion, liberation of
political prisoners.
FARC recalls that 45 years ago it was
founded in the heights of Margquetalia
(Caldas), in a quest for peace, justice and
dignity in Colombia. Since then, it points
out "we are the armed answer of the
dispossessed and the just against the
repeated violations of the State."
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