Tuesday, November 20, 2012

FARC: CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP

After loss of key leaders FARC is skeptical about peace agreement

Reyes was a key negotiator in the recent efforts by Hugo Chavez to release some of the Colombian hostages held by FARC. There is a valid reason to believe that Uribe killed Reyes to thwart the chances of Ingrid Betancourt getting released. Were she to be released, Uribe would likely come under international pressure to grant FARC political status and it could bring a change in the political status quo of Colombia. Bernard Aronson, a top Latin America diplomat and a Hispanic affairs expert, comments, “There is nothing that can be negotiated with a terrorist group that is only interested in ransom. The FARC discarded long ago its leftist political and ideological agenda." Many leftists of Latin America distance themselves from the FARC because of the means it has adopted. The seizure of political power through guerrilla warfare is impossible unless it commands enormous popular support in the country. And FARC has sustained on its guerrilla strategy. If only the FARC heeds to the words of Chavez, peace will at least have some chance .


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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