FARC

[ComradeRobertRiley]

BBC News - FARC Capture (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3365767.stm)


Colombia has announced the capture of a top commander of the main left-wing rebel group, the FARC.
Officials said Ricardo Palmera, better known as Simon Trinidad, was arrested in Ecuador in a joint operation with the Colombian and US authorities.

Ricardo Palmera, the most senior FARC member to be captured, played a key role in failed talks with the Colombian Government in 2002.

Analysts say his arrest is a coup for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

[Hate Is Art]

I don't really know much about FARC but a leftist guerilla based movement could be good if implemented properly and they stop kidnapping hikers.


Analysts say his arrest is a coup for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

Could you go into a bit more detail on this please I am a bit lost?

[ComradeRobertRiley]

Its only just come in, click the BBC news link in the post, i think thats all it said on the matter

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I am no fan of FARC but I do suport the ELN another guerilla group in colombia. FARC has hurt too many innocent people for my likings

[Comité De Salut Public]

Don't worry about the "capture." It is really a spy game just you watch. You think this guy just let himself get caught? Do you think he is stupid? The FARC are investing in this "capture" and the eventual payoff will be great in terms of successful disinformation, etc.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

uh, does this mean more bloodshed? I hope not.

[ComradeRobertRiley]

I hope it means more cappie bloodshed.

[Soviet power supreme]

So what do you suggest for the funding?

The FARC is the world's biggest guerilla group.It contains 15000 guerillas.That is like a helluva more than Fidel had in Cuba in 1959.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

look all bloodshed is wrong. where gandhi when he's needed

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

to sps-
cuba a lot smaller than colombia

[Soviet power supreme]

cuba a lot smaller than colombia

So?I asked how you would fund them.

[ComradeRobertRiley]

dont give me that Ghandi bullshit.


All he did was get rid of an occupying force thats would have gone anyway in time.

Defeating capitalism is something extremely differant

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

no way would i fund FARC they murder people with no reason except money(or in nice words funding)
they are just like the enemy

[ComradeRobertRiley]

you would be saying the same thing about Che and Fidel in the build up to the Cuban revolution, they killed people too, it wasnt wrong!

Killing is needed.

[Soviet power supreme]

FOOL

I asked you how they should fund themselves if not protecting the coke sell and kidnaping.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

if they had better human rights they'd get more international suport

[Soviet power supreme]

Like where?

Cuba already aids the FARC and I think DPRK supplies some weapons there.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

DPRK?
Whatother left wing governments around the world?

[ComradeRobertRiley]

FARC are good.

[MiDnIgHtMaRaUdEr]

If anything, I think FARC and ELN are being too soft. This is a revolution, not a tea party. They need to get out there and destroy capitalism once and for all. Does anyone know what the difference is between FARC and ELN anyways?

[Guerilla22]

True FARC has resorted to some pretty brutal tatics and they should be condemned for their colaboration with Colombian drug cartels, but one has to remeber that the government of Colombia has resorted to equally as brutal methods and that the upper class continues to sponsor death squads to intimidate and murder the civillian population in an attempt to keep them under their control.

[Guerilla22]

DPRK (DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA) AKA: NORTH KOREA; AKA: BAD KOREA