{"id":16398,"date":"2011-11-07T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16398"},"modified":"2011-11-07T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:14:04","slug":"from-la-violencia-to-the-war-on-terror-a-re-examination-of-colombia%e2%80%99s-farc-ep-inside-bolivar%e2%80%99s-gran-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16398","title":{"rendered":"From La Violencia to the War on Terror: A re-examination of Colombia\u2019s FARC-EP inside Bolivar\u2019s ‘Gran Colombia’"},"content":{"rendered":"

La revoluci\u00f3n no ser\u00e1 calco ni copia, sino creaci\u00f3n heroica <\/em>(The revolution will not be traceable or a copy, but a heroic creation).<\/p>\n

— Jose Carlos Mariategui (1894\u20131930)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By Oliver Villar<\/strong> and Drew Cottle<\/strong><\/p>\n

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FARC guerillas.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

November 3, 2011 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal<\/a> <\/em>— Colombia is the first Latin American country to become subjected to the theatre of United States anti-guerrilla warfare. Colombia has also one of the richest histories of revolutionary politics on the continent extending well over half a century. It is throughout this time, that Colombia has been the battleground of an undeclared civil war.<\/p>\n

Two mutually complementary causes are traceable. First, Colombia\u2019s compradores, <\/em>the national business and landlord classes have waged a life and death battle against the landless poor. Second, a policy of repression and repossession has been pursued by the Colombian ruling class with the financial and military support of the USA.<\/p>\n

The aim of the US counterinsurgency has been to defeat the long and enduring struggle for national liberation by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia \u2013 Ej\u00e9rcito del Pueblo<\/em> (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia \u2013 People\u2019s Army, FARC-EP), Latin America\u2019s oldest and most powerful Marxist insurgency. Longer than Vietnam, it has been America\u2019s longest and toughest counterinsurgency war (Leech 2011). No other Latin American country has experienced so long a period of almost undisrupted violence from the mid-twentieth century as Colombia.<\/p>\n

Click here to continue reading “From La Violencia to the War on Terror: A re-examination of Colombia\u2019s FARC-EP inside Bolivar\u2019s ‘Gran Colombia” by Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La revoluci\u00f3n no ser\u00e1 calco ni copia, sino creaci\u00f3n heroica (The revolution will not be traceable or a copy, but a heroic creation). — Jose Carlos Mariategui (1894\u20131930) By Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle November 3, 2011 — Links International … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4gu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16398"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16410,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions\/16410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}