{"id":3192,"date":"2008-06-12T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2008-06-12T08:49:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T13:49:26","slug":"president-hugo-chavez-calls-on-farc-to-release-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3192","title":{"rendered":"President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez calls on FARC to release prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">A surprising insistence<\/font><br \/>\n<strong>By Manuel Alberto Ramy, progreso-weekly.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/progreso-weekly.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=507&#038;Itemid=1\">12 June 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In what could be described as an unexpected insistence &#8212; though intelligent and beneficial for Colombian society and the region, because of its pacifist nature &#8212; Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez last Sunday issued a surprising call to the new chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time has come for the FARC to release all the people they have up there on the mountain. It would be a great humanitarian gesture, in exchange for nothing. That&#8217;s how I propose it, now that there is a new chief in charge of the FARC secretariat. That would be the first step toward ending the domestic war in Colombia,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The call from the Venezuelan president did not end there. He added that guerrilla war, as a means to achieve power and generate beneficial changes, no longer corresponds with the current situation in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is necessary to tell this to the FARC. That&#8217;s want I wanted to tell Marulanda. I told him so publicly, at the end. Several times. I never wrote to him. Now I tell Alfonso Cano [the FARC&#8217;s new leader] that they should release all those people. There are women, old people, sick people, soldiers who have spent as long as 10 years there. Enough! The time has come, Cano, I believe it. Guerrilla warfare passed into history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/progreso-weekly.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=507&#038;Itemid=1\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising insistence By Manuel Alberto Ramy, progreso-weekly.com, 12 June 2008 In what could be described as an unexpected insistence &#8212; though intelligent and beneficial for Colombian society and the region, because of its pacifist nature &#8212; Venezuelan President Hugo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Pu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}