Farc and their followers intend to affect the combat motivation of Military Forces through a meaningless letter written by a person that calls himself Esteban Martinez. The message was published in one of the web pages of the narco guerilla group and its goal is to show Colombian soldiers without Fe en la Causa.
The author of the message wants to show narco guerrillas as invincible, a criminal organization that hasn’t lost its fighting capability in spite of all the strategic blows that it has suffered. They want to use as their own the moral victory of all legitimate Colombian soldiers and ascribe them to the same criminals that assault our society since 1964 and before.
The significant defeats that they have suffered are explained by them as an internal weakness, not caused by obvious superiority and efficiency of Colombian Military Forces and the guerrilla’s dimness that forces them to recruit children and adolescents to supply their loses throughout their structural organization.
Recycling the same argument that narco guerrillas are defeated is a military action of ‘imperialism’, it shows strategic and tactical ignorance of the same illegal armed organizations. This is proof of their historical stiffness and their lack of vision of Colombia’s current reality. It explains why Fidel Castro classified them as an anachronism impossible to justify.
However there is an unquestionable reality, Farc, Eln or Criminal Groups have never gained the necessary popular support in order to be considered as insurgent forces. During the democratic history of Colombia, less than 1% of Colombians has expressed public recognition of a force that favors narco terrorism. This is a socio-political reality that narco guerrillas do not represent any political cause, hence, their armed aggression is not a synonym of liberation war or any other title that International Humanitarian Law could grant them.
Corrupt expressions of judicial power that have raised them to humanitarian organizations in order to justify their abhorrent crimes are not enough. Colombian society has expressed itself rejecting narco guerrillas and their violation conduct of International Humanitarian Law.
Demanding as a previous condition to release all military hostages the visit of Piedad Cordoba to terrorists that have been sentenced is a mockery of future expectations of peace and national reconciliation. This gets more serious when a veil of silence and forgetfulness is maintained with regard to the destiny of more than 700 Colombians kidnapped by Farc and from who no news has been received.
Peace in Colombia is not only built with the declaration of Farc saying that they want to halt extortive kidnapping. Peace requires a true demonstration of putting aside and halt using terrorism as a form of political struggle. It really means creating historical memory that communism has perverted since the 1950’s. Requests have been made demanding penal responsibility of those that promoted and created illegal AUC groups, therefore it is also right to request the same treatment of those who endorse and support narco guerrillas, they have to answer judicial claims and to the Colombian people.
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