and research it further to confirm its veracity.

There is no place for the Farc now, Marulanda committed atrocities to impose an ideology , which is just as bad as the imposing of capitalism by the US, but some sort of capitalism will always be needed as will some sort of socialism to ensure fairness and development, but extremes that result to killing should never ever be applauded!

A country such as Colombia with a rising middle class, an increasingly educated and social conscientious population as well as seemingly good economic prospects doesn’t need an illegal organization that forces socialism through killing and kidnapping. What it needs is STABILITY and an end to the paramilitary and guerilla groups which is in its process thanks to the very person you slandered in this article. President Uribe, who although not perfect has given the most transparency of any Colombian government and is finally making way for Colombia’s corrupt government to clean up its act as well as providing stability by using the rather dim Bush administration.

While a remarkable portrait of a people’s hero, the underlying theme here is depressingly familiar: American-sponsored murder to perpetuate the myth and treachery of capitalism. Supportive as it has been of brutally repressive, imperialism-abetting authoritarian regimes around the world, the U. S.-organized, -funded, and -implemented campaigns against people amount to the most heinous and extensive war crime ever perpetrated. The long history — in essence, our entire national history — of the American government’s interventionism, its scale, continuity, and intensity, completely dwarfs anything the Nazis did, anything undertaken by Stalin or Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, or the Tutsis. The fortunes spent alone on funding these operations — over 200 years of designing better weapons, not just the hardware and personnel, but the insidious spin of lies, deceit, and propaganda — numb the mind, completely obliterating the myth that “America spreads democracy.”

The best way we the people can spread democracy will be to bring to justice to those who continue to perpetrate crimes against humanity. Of course, this is difficult when most Americans consent to these crimes: we all contribute to the slaughter and pillage of people and their land — people who embody fundamental rights to peace, happiness, and self-determination — by allowing the self-serving “leaders” of the corrupt nation that is the United States of America to continue to do their business. This business is not really ours, but with our complicity, the master villains use us against our brothers and sisters. Until the vast majority of Americans realize just how badly we’ve been duped, how injurious to our collective health all the consumption and militarism and mass manipulation and bloodshed has been, we’ll continue to pay the steep price of self-destruction. Those who authorize, legislate, dispense, propagandize, repress, torture, and otherwise implement the means of imperialism must be held accountable, and that’s up to all of us every moment of our lives. Let the heads begin rolling.