On the FARC-EP

[*PRC*Kensei]

Originally posted by Janus@Sep 27 2006, 08:35 PM

it's un-communistic to have drugs

Not really. It's a form of income and as long as you don't see it as an end in itself, there shouldn't be a problem.

drugs:

- target the poor (mainly, coke is more a uptown drug...but drugs in general)
- get you addicted --> you become slave of consumation, you lose your freedom, you are no longer independant of capital.
- are expencive...
- big-profit, create drug barons, create e whealthy class above the workers.
- are... very bad for any gerillia army, a gerilla must be INDEPENDANT of any material accept basic food.

anyway, this doesnt mean i am against the farc, far from. go go farc

[RNK]

There's also the matter that the FARC doesn't seem to be getting anywhere. How long has their war been on? In my opinion, they have become stagnant.

[Sadena Meti]

To the contrary, since 2002 FARC-EP has been spreading it's sphere of influence, in terms of power and area, outside of Columbia. Read some of the right-wing reports on them and you will see that they (the right) are getting worried.

[A CLOCKWORK ORANGE]

Originally posted by CompañeroDeLibertad@Sep 27 2006, 04:47 PM
Basically it's like this. The AUC is actively involved in the cultivation, processing and trafficking of coke.

FARC on the other hand, simply taxes coca farmes in the areas it controls, like it taxes all farmers.

If FARC were to tell farmers they couldn't grow coca, that would be like telling them to starve to death. For alot of farmers, coca is the only thing they can grow to make any money at all. It's that or coffee for your nearest Starfucks at the huge prices you can imagine.

Are you sure it's just taxing? Two alleged FARC suspects plead guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute large quantities of cocaine in Miami.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Two alleged associates of Colombia's leading rebel group pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to distribute large quantities of cocaine in Miami, authorities said.

The convictions of the men, who were extradited from Colombia earlier this year, are the first in the United States involving drug suspects linked to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Alexander Acosta, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, told reporters.

Fifty leaders of the rebel group, known as FARC, were charged in March with importing more than $25 billion worth of cocaine into the United States and other countries.

The one-count U.S. indictment named as defendants the entire leadership of the FARC, a group the United States has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

Acosta said the men in the Miami case, Cesar Augusto Perez-Parra and Farouk Shaikh-Reyes, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to supply up to 4,400 pounds (2 tonnes) of cocaine every 15 to 45 days to informants cooperating with U.S. law enforcement agencies.

"The defendants face several decades of prison here in the United States," Acosta said.

He said a third suspect in the case, an alleged FARC guerrilla identified as Ferney Tovar-Parra, faced extradition from Colombia on the south Florida cocaine charges.

Source: FARC suspects plead guilty to U.S charges

[Sadena Meti]

Two alleged associates of Colombia's leading rebel group...

Alleged associates, not members.

[A CLOCKWORK ORANGE]

Originally posted by rev-stoic@Sep 30 2006, 12:53 PM

Two alleged associates of Colombia's leading rebel group...

Alleged associates, not members.

We still don't know for sure.