Raul Reyes Assassinated

the destination of our homeland cannot be of civil war. Exits exist that make the use of arms unnecessary. In UNO, we want to speak to the world that only knows of Uribe Vélez and his sickly obsession called war. And therefore the International Community can see him without great importance and with disdain. He is being isolated. He, for us, should be isolated. And, for us, the hour to be heard must not be very distant.

11. What are the political benchmarks of FARC-EP?

R / Our main flag has been and continues to be the deep and sincere certainty that it is possible to reach the basic transformation that is necessary for Colombia, for different roads from the war between brothers of one same homeland. And on this we keep on insisting. However, we have always found as a reply the war done by the successive governments against the people. However, it seems that the oligarchy started to understand that war is not the exit. Let us see what its main spokesman said, in the periodical El Tiempo, day 20 of February. We quote two side remarks:

"Something walks badly in this country where decades ago one speaks about social justice, however, it promotes a model that maintains a scandalous inequality. Between 20 and 29 million poor Colombians (there is no agreement even on how many there are) cry out for transformation of the bottom in a system that seems drawn against them."

"It has to be said with all clarity: this model, armed with a similar arsenal of mechanisms against the least favored, is delayed. It is essential to transform it. Not only for the moral imperative to reduce poverty, and yes because, as many specialists affirm, it is not enough to grow, it has to redistribute."

To transform it? Clearly, creating the conditions to do it by means of understanding, respectful dialogue, with responsibility and without killing those whom for years we fight for these transformations and that in a given moment we will have to capture arms since the other roads were closed to us. Moreover, because it is better we are alive, so to be in the mountains fulfilling our historical duty to fight for New Colombia and not in the tomb.

12. In Latin America the anti-imperialist spirit grows. To what measure does this feeling benefit FARC in political reality?

R / From Marquetalia we began to have the conscience that our fight was against Imperialism for the Homeland and, against the oligarchy for the people. That is not new for us. And clearly, what encourages us is when a coup d'etat takes place currently in Latin America, where the Yankees already cannot mount a fascist dictatorship, neither their dictatorships or coup d'etats are working, as before. Everything because the people place high the flags of our great heroes, begin to stand up against this Empire converted today into the enemy of Humanity. This awakening feeds our capacity for resistance!

13. Very much obliged for granting us this interview, Senhor Comandante.

R / I thank for you the opportunity to direct us to your readers, to whom from the mountains of Colombia we can bring our revolutionary embrace near, Bolivarian and socialist.

Respectfully,

Raúl Reyes
Member of the Secretariat of the Largest Central State of FARC-EP

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
PRAVDA.Ru

Translated by Lisa KARPOVA

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