Raul Reyes Assassinated
The international ecological companies that seek the limitation of national sovereignties on the Amazonian region are leaving the propagandistic phase to give beginning to the operative phase, that definitely can try direct military interventions in the region" (John Major, prime minister of England, London, 1992)."
The United States knows the wealth that exists in this Continent. Therefore they continue with their interference by armed force. The Columbian oligarchy occupies the third party to join the world in receiving military support from the United States. However all their plans have been finding militant and firm resistance from our people.
Besides, in the Latin American political environment the resistance to these imperialist politics grows and is consolidated. Therefore the Colombia and Patriot Plans possess the same destination: their failure.
04. The media present extensive images of dead guerrillas, many others as prisoners and others that surrender. They promote the sensation that the losses are great. What part of this information is correct?
R / In confrontations they present themselves diminished. It is just logical. However, if the official images that the great media disseminated with so much insistence are considered certain, we will practically be defeated. Without any superiority we affirm: the reality is different. Our guerrilla forces are one hundred percent, maintain their morals, the militant disposition is framed inside of a revolutionary discipline of respect to the population and the losers in combat, therefore we do not make war for the sake of war, and yes because the political circumstances have been getting a beating facing arms with arms. Let us see what was said by a newspaper writer of the periodical El Tiempo, of Bogota, that on day 25 of February discovered the quiet person. I cite two asides of its text. One: "To abandon nailing that victory was obtained already or it is near. The adversary, however, is very strong; and has not been defeated nor been weakened in a critical way." Two: "In Colombia, without a pragmatic strategy and effective political negotiation with the guerrillas, there will not be peace nor lasting security. They have to recognize that a political agreement is the only solution for our armed internal conflict."
Since we formed mobile guerrillas to fight for power, in 1964, we have been saying and we repeat here: We felt to dialogue with the faced parties so that with will and political decision we can give to Colombia an opportunity, to begin among all those that fight for a worthy and sovereign homeland the historical fact of opening the floodgates to Peace with Social Justice.
05. What political direction does FARC-EP give to the population in the regions where they are present? What political formation is received by a young person or a young person who joins this guerrilla movement? Besides, are they pledged to do social activities?
R / We move from the principle that FARC is a military-political organization. All the activities happen on the basis of plans approved in our Conferences. These plans are executed and subsequently evaluated. Our education plans are also to prepare the militant farianos and also those of other clandestine organizations that we have. It teaches reading and writing, political courses and progressive military and specialties connected with the handling of some military subjects.
The culture in FARC is sui generis. There are (women and men) peasants, workers, poets, agronomists, nutritionists, accountants, writers, artists, painters, composers, musicians, lawyers, engineers in different branches, theologians, geologists, sociologists, doctors, journalists, engineers, students of different levels, which allow the
interaction to produce a type of theoretical and practical education, also sui generis.
We explained to the population the reasons for which we fight with arms in hand. Let's see: a) more than 40 years ago the political regime closed the possibility for politics that offers the Constitution to the opposition, who want a better country for all, resulting in a country of deep transformations. b) All the proposals and efforts to create a different environment for politics not based on armed confrontation, were banished by successive governments through brutal violence: shooting against its leadership and sympathizers.
Who does not remember the political genocide of thousands of Colombians and Colombians of the Patriotic Union. c) Today we are a people in arms and our political flags are in our Platform for a Government of Reconciliation and National Reconstruction, since we are an alternative power and know that if the people will have an opportunity a participative and supportive democracy will be built that will allow them the full exercise of their rights. D) We speakto the people of the necessity to get organized to fight. Therefore we establish the Bolivarian Movement for New Colombia and the Communist Clandestine Party. Likewise, we polish organizations that the people themselves have like the Boards of Communal Action.
