Re: "Marxist guerrillas are fighting back history"

[Julio Pino <jpino@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re the FARC: just because it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it
doesn't make it a duck! (There, Marxist ornithology!)The FARC has more in
common with Hugo Chavez than with Fidel Castro. It is a fighting a
self-described "Bolivarian Revolution" whose goal is a multi-class
government respecting and protecting many different kinds of property
forms. They do not wish to replace(overthrow is too strong a word) the
current regime so much as to expand Colombian democracy to include them. So
the most likely scenario in Colombia is in fact the FMLN route; the
guerrillas laying down their arms and joining the political order as the
third party to compete with the Liberal/Conservative duopoly that currently
runs the country.
Unless: President Bush or Gore does something incredibly stupid, like
introducing more US advisers and bombing the coca fields, or Pastrana
becoming a dictator, throwing his lot in with the generals, a la Fujimori,
thereby forcing the FARC to radicalize.
Julio Cesar

>Colombia's Rebels Keep the Marxist Faith
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>SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUÁN, Colombia, July 22 -- The dream of a
>Marxist-Leninist revolution remains improbably alive amid the rolling
>cattle pastures and steamy coca fields of southern Colombia.
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