Re: Colombia

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay:
>killing people outside of the combat situation.  I seem to remember Louis
>dealt with this whole canard following some discussion with some NACLA
>people in New York.  Can you please remind me?  What info do others have
>about this?  Just as in the Anti(Vietnam) War movement, some old positions
>seem to the replicating themselves here, with the pacifist human-rights
>types objectively lining up with U.S. imperialism by their fright from the
>revolutionaries.   Some of these human rights organizations I know are
>funded by very mainstream, to say the least, sources.

I am not sure what the Colombia Support Network in Boston is. If it is a
local affiliate of the misnamed Colombia Solidarity Committee, then you are
going to get a pox on both your houses analysis. Meanwhile, a new national
network has started up called the Colombia Action Network, which seems
somewhat better. A hopeful sign is that CISPES is heavily involved with it.
Their website is at: http://www.freespeech.org/actioncolombia/

NACLA is openly hostile to the FARC and ELN which is bad enough. What's
worse is that they have spread lies about the FARC, namely that they were
involved with murdering and burning homes in indigenous areas. As it turns
out, the incident they reported on was actually carried out by rightwing
paramilitaries disguising themselves as FARC combatants. When I brought
this to their attention, they had nothing to say. An investigative
journalist I knew from Nicaragua solidarity days told me that NACLA has
been basically taken over by a bunch of anticommunists. Thank god we have
the Internet to exchange information.

Louis Proyect
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