Reply #241: oh bullshit. Whether FARC is a terrorist group can be debated [View All]

[cali]

but an organization of such light and goodness as you worshipfully describe, doesn't kidnap civilians, murder civilians or engage in the cocaine trade. And Chavez disagrees with you about FARC being this ooh so wonderful organization, dear.

On January 13, 2008, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated his dissaproval with the FARC strategy of armed struggle and kidnapping saying "I don't agree with kidnapping and I don't agree with armed struggle" <3>. President Hugo Chavez has repeatedly stated his dissaproval of the practice of kidnapping stating on April 14 that "If I were a guerrilla, I wouldn't have the need to hold a woman, a man who aren't soldiers...Free the civilians who don't have anything to do with the war. I don't agree with that."<4>. On March 7 at the Cumbre de Rio, Chavez stated again that the FARC should lay down their arms "Look at what has has happened and is happening in Latin America, reflect on this (Farc), we are done with war... enough with all this death"<5>. On June 8 Chavez repeated his call for a political solution and an end to the war, "The guerrilla war is history...At this moment in Latin America, an armed guerrilla movement is out of place". <6>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia

common decency. What an absurd claim.