Since when is Resist a stage for right wing columnist like Alfredo Rangel, centrist statists like Daniel Garcia-Pena Jaramillo or elite propaganda vehicles like the Colombian daily El Espectador. Or for that matter anything by Justin Podur. TYhis articvle is not informative - it is a clever excercise in capitalist morality and disjointed journalism. Shame on Znet

Nuetrality Not a Right of Civilians in War:

Colombia the Israel of S America

(An excerpt form resist.ca)

"" Military Triumph, Political Failure

by Daniel Garcia-Pena - Znet; April 30, 2005
 http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/30/16611/5111

As Alfredo Rangel [translator's note: a right-wing columnist] said in his column last Friday,

the FARC, by sustaining military action for more than a week, has already demonstrated that it is far from the military defeat that the triumphalist voices of the government have proclaimed. Rather than retreating when counterattacked, they have prolonged and consolidated their presence in the region. This is a serious reverse for President Uribe's `democratic security' counterinsurgency policy."" [ This IS the good part - it then leads into a narrow and silly attack on FARC - EQUATING THEM WITH Uribe and the pure - Fascists (COlombian Govt. and USA) ]


THIS IS a terribly twisted article that runs on resist.ca - a supposed anarchist website that increasingly looks like fox news and covers so many things non-anarchist. _ I like natives - but there is no way to claim they are non-hierarchal - THEY HAve CHIEFS - !!

I guess this is just the ususal western - kiddie-crap -

read on ...


Fierce combat rages in SOuthern Colombia.


 http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/30/16611/5111
"The attack (by the FARC) directly in the heart of Proyecto Nasa, winner of the National Peace Prize, symbol of nonviolent resistance to war, is not only a violation of indigenous autonomy, built over many years of communal processes: it is also a violation of the right of the civilian population to not be involved in hostilities. The FARC has once again made itself look like Uribe's government, which also does not want to recognize the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado and its decision for `active neutrality'."

Military Triumph, Political Failure by Daniel Garcia-Pena - Znet; April 30, 2005


the FARC is the main force that stands in the way of the fascist paramilitary death squads run by the Colombian military and government that target peasant organizers, trade unionists and social justice activists. The FARC's leadership, incorruptible through forty years of struggle, has entered into a number of peace processes and negotiations with the Colombian State. In return, however, the FARC and the Colombian people have been met with assassinations, repression and death squads.

The Nasa, also known here as the Páez, were not always peaceful. In the 1980's, they formed a fighting group, Quintin Lame, but the violence only escalated. The Indians changed tactics, and vowed to stay out of the fighting. They focused on building a self-sustaining community held together by an overarching philosophy of self-determination and the right to be left alone.

Funny - First they fight, then they try to withdraw into their own little world - escapism is not honorable - neutrality in a war of the strong against the weak is never neutral.


The FARC-EP was not visibly present in many rural towns and villages as has been the case in months and years past. However, the lack of overt presence does not mean that the FARC-EP has fully retracted from the countryside. It is speculated that in actuality the guerrilla has objectively enhanced its reticence for two specific reasons.


The first reason for the FARC-EP’s “absence” is to limit the opportunity of the U.S./Colombian state forces from entering campesino inhabited regions that are, or at one time were, supporters of the insurgency. The Colombian military has a horrendous record of committing human rights abuses against non-combatants; therefore the FARC-EP has chosen to limit its immediate visible presence in the hopes of diminishing the chance of injury against the rural populations of FARC-EP extended regions.
The interesting aspect of all this is that while the FARC-EP may very well be preparing for a major military confrontation in Southern Colombia the rural supporters of the insurgents are still quietly stationed throughout the country; in the cities, towns, villages, mountainside, and fields. Therefore, the eve of a full-scale revolutionary war between the insurgent forces of the FARC-EP and their rural support-base against the Colombian/United States forces could be a very real reality in the not to distant future of Colombia.

Notes: 1) It was common in small towns and villages inside these zones to see FARC-EP playing soccer with townspeople or keeping watch while walking alongside deteriorated roadways through numerous villages.
2) Since the beginning of Plan Patriota in the Spring of 2004 reports have surfaced that well over 1,000 U.S. personnel have been recognized throughout the country in direct military campaigns which means that the United States government have actually violated Congressional rulings of the allowed number of troops allowed to be in Colombia

For the original despicable article see:
 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=7760

For the Statement from the FARC-EP see:
 http://www.farcep.org/novedades/comunicados/fre-blo2005/abril_26.php

Comunicado- Operación héroes y mártires de Toribío
La presencia de la policía en la cabecera municipal de Toribío en contra del querer mayoritario de la comunidad, la construcción del cuartel y de innumerables trincheras en medio de la población civil, agudizaron desde el 14 de abril pasado, el conflicto social, político y armado que el presidente Uribe se empeña en ocultar.

La estrategia gringa de aplastar y someter al pueblo para aprobar el ALCA que se desarrolla bajo el nombre de "seguridad democrática" no ha traído si no miseria, marginalidad y violencia para las clases medias y pobres de nuestro país.
Este gobierno le ha negado la reconciliación y la justicia social a Colombia, ha negado la posibilidad de un canje de prisioneros de guerra y ha cerrado las puertas a la solución política del conflicto.

Por el contrario, se esfuerza con descaro por legalizar al paramilitarismo con sus enormes fortunas de origen coquero y con sus sicarios, sin que devuelvan las tierras arrebatadas a los campesinos e indígenas, sin que indemnicen a quienes afectaron y ofendieron, sin que paguen por sus masacres, sencillamente porque son el fundamento de la campaña electoral por la reelección.

Colombia necesita inversión social, obras y empleo. Le sobran los aviones y los helicópteros de guerra, las tanquetas y los ministros bota fuego, reclama más educación pública con valores patrióticos y menos represión, más hospitales y menos turismo presidencial al exterior, más verdades y menos campaña electorera por la reelección.
El Comando Conjunto del sur occidente y la columna Jacobo Arenas de las FARC-EP alentamos a los colombianos que luchan por sus reivindicaciones y por la paz del país, por la soberanía y la justicia social. Saludamos a los compañeros Sonia y Simón Trinidad, que mostraron la serena y digna actitud de los revolucionarios ante la cobardía de un Estado que, como en las‚ pocas coloniales, responde a la resistencia popular con las cárceles del imperio.

Informamos que en estos diez días de enfrentamientos con la policía, la fuerza aérea y el ejército oficial en el nororiente del departamento del Cauca, hemos derribado 1 helicóptero, averiado 4 y también 2 tanquetas, que han muerto 12 policías y 19 militares y heridos 13 policías y 2 militares. Propios: 4 heridos.

Montañas del Cauca, 23 de abril del año 2005.Comando Conjunto del Sur Occidente.Columna Jacobo Arenas.

The Posting at Resist.ca by Justin Podur shows the gringo, capitalist morality and hypocritical bnature of what is left (or rightwing) of anarchism. Most FARC fighters are women or indigenous. The FARC did not attack first. The Colombian government sent armed police and military officials into the Nasa territories in 2004 and then as the US guided Southern Colombian Warzone pushed the FARC int the NAsa region the FARC struck back at these military outposts -

Since when is Resist a stage for right wing columnist like Alfredo Rangel, centrist statists like Daniel Garcia-Pena Jaramillo or elite propaganda vehicles like the Colombian daily El Espectador. Or for that matter anything by Justin Podur.

The Resist.ca article is not informative - it is a clever excercise in capitalist morality and disjointed journalism.

Shame on Znet

SHAME On Resist.ca

Nuetrality Not a Right of Civilians in War:

Colombia the Israel of S America