'U.S. is already intervention'
A call for solidarity with Colombia
The following message was received from the International
Commission of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC-EP).
To our compañeras and compañeros,
a Bolivarian greeting.
You know of the huge disinformation campaign put forward by
the Empire and its national representatives to prepare public
opinion for, and to justify, a direct military intervention in
our country.
It is necessary to be clear that the U.S. is already
intervening under the pretext of the war on drugs, stationing
hundreds of military "advisers" and broadening its "advisory"
role in the counterinsurgency war--their principal
objective.
The incident of the crashed intelligence super-plane, in
which five U.S. personnel and two Colombians were killed, is
clear proof of their intervention.
The pretexts used by imperialism to justify their
intervention are humanitarian interventions, the war on drugs,
defense of national security, and defense of democracy. In the
Colombian case they are using an explosive mix of all of
them.
We can't forget their interest in breaking the
Carter-Torrijos treaty, returning the canal to its true owners,
the Panamanian people. Nor can we forget their growing interest
in blocking the process of making Venezuela democratic and
sovereign that President Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan people
are carrying out. Nor the effort to divert the intention of the
Peruvian and Ecuadoran people from their grave social and
economic problems [by presenting Colombia as a "regional
threat"].
Another determining factor that we can't forget is the
geo-strategic interest in the Amazon region, the lung of the
planet, now surrounded by U.S. military bases.
State terrorism as official policy remains active and
intact. Its tool is the dirty war carried out by the
paramilitaries, as an extension of the official armed forces.
The latest victims--the humorist and journalist Jaime Garzon, a
person dedicated to the search for peace, and a student of the
University of Antioquia belonging to the ELN--are ample proof
of this.
We ask: Is Andres Pastrana's government's promise to wipe
out paramilitarism, as an indispensable step in building peace,
real? We respond with the hard reality: NO.
This somber reality brings us to call for solidarity from
the people of the world and their organizations--as much
political as trade union, social and popular organizations,
including NGOs with sincere humanitarianism--in denouncing and
rejecting an eventual massive U.S. military intervention in
Colombia (read "invasion") in whatever form: a multinational
force, UN forces, rapid action detachments in defense of
democracy, or others. We ask for whatever actions you consider
possible to carry out with genuine popular impact.
The peoples of the world in general, and the people of Latin
America and the Caribbean particularly, must defeat this
growing threat to self-determination and sovereignty. Above all
it is necessary to explain that in Colombia a definitive battle
for the liberation of our peoples is taking shape.
We salute and appreciate the acts and campaigns taken up in
this vein by different sister organizations. We join these
actions and hope that the American continent and the world
produces a multitude of initiatives rejecting U.S. intervention
in Colombia and in any other part of the world.
We take this occasion to reaffirm our unquenchable will to
peace and the deter mination of all of our men and women in the
struggle to build a New Colombia with neither exploiters
nor
exploited, in peace with dignity
and sovereignty.
Against imperialism, for the homeland. Against the
oligarchy, for the people. Until the final victory, we are the
FARC-EP.
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