FARC and International Support

BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- Email messages linking the Colombian Marxist guerilla insurgency (known by its Spanish acronym, FARC) to politicians, union activists and left-wing parties overseas have revealed a network of supporters spanning several continents, and have kept tensions high between Colombia and some of its neighbors.

Most of the information comes from laptop computers, external hard drives and flash drives reportedly recovered from a FARC campground located in Ecuador that the Colombians bombed and then searched in March. The attack killed Raul Reyes, the guerrillas' second in command, who acted as the group's foreign minister.

Initially, the release of email messages documenting friendly relationships between the guerrillas and the leftist governments of Ecuador and Venezuela strained relations between Colombia and its neighbors. Since then, other emails made public have linked FARC leaders to government officials, academics, far-left political parties and union activists in Spain, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil and the United States.   (continue reading at World Politics Review)

From Douglas Farah, The FARC’s World of Terror Is Shrinking

The concerted effort by the United States and most of the European Union, along with a few countries in Latin America, are gradually cutting off the operational areas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Tuesday's OFAC designation of eight members of the FARC's international delegation is another step in that direction. The FARC is a designated terrorist organization by the U.S. and the EU.

These International Commission members represent the FARC in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, and Canada.

As I wrote in this paper for the NEFA Foundation, the FARC's international structure has been one of the most underestimated elements of support for the terrorist organization.  (continue reading)

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Comments

[Faultline USA]

I have not been familiar with FARC and this information is very informaitive!

[Stormwarning]

Not familiar with FARC? They've been an active terrorist organization in Columbia for 40 years. Heavily into kidnapping (you don't remember Ingrid Betancourt???). Quite revealing. Quite.

[Mustang]

“. . . linking the Colombian Marxist guerilla insurgency (known by its Spanish acronym, FARC) to politicians, union activists and left-wing parties overseas have revealed a network of supporters spanning several continents . . .” Garsh, Mickey . . . this sounds amazingly similar to the Obama/ACORN debacle.

[Angel]

seems like the terrorists have all the support these days Deb..gah!

[Ernesto Ribeiro]

Debbie, pleae, post this SCANDAL:

Sao Paulo Forum - The Comunnist MOB uniting ALL the Leftists Parties in the Latin America

(includding criminals as FARC, MIR, etc) and its leader / founder is... Fidel Castro and Lula da Silva, our F@#$%&* Brazilian President!

(Sunday is Election Day in Brazil. And I always vote NULE.)

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/050926dc_en.html

President Lula, guilty by confession

Olavo de Carvalho
Diario do Comercio, September 26th, 2005

I should be grateful to President Lula. When practically all the national media makes an effort to cover up the activities of the Sao Paulo Forum or even to deny its existence, labeling as a “madman” or “fanatic” anyone who denounces them, cometh the very founder of the entity and does the job, proving by his own words the most depressing suspicions and some even worse.

The active humiliation of the national sovereignty could not be more evident, especially when one realizes that the attending entities of these decision-making meetings include organizations such as the Chilean MIR, kidnapper of Brazilians, and the FARC, Colombian narcoguerilla, responsible, according to its member Fernandinho Beira-Mar, for the annual injection of two hundred tons of cocaine into the national market.

(CONTINUE)

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/articles/050926dc_en.html