---------- From: "Claudia K. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Angelfire (http://email.angelfire.mailcity.lycos.com:80) Subject: Colombia: Year-End Communique from FARC-EP From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12/29/00 10:07 PM Mountain Standard Time Message-id: <92jqik$2vtu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Colombia: Year-End Communique from FARC-EP BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR FROM FARC-EP On the occasion of the festivities for year's end 2000 and New Year 2001, the International Commission of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army, FARC-EP, sends a fraternal, revolutionary and Bolivarian salute to the peoples, governments, political parties and movements, social, union, religious and aboriginal organizations and personalities of America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. We wish you all satisfactory results in each of your functions and activities during the new year, for the benefit of your countries and collectives, as well as personally. We sincerely thank those who, during the past year, have assisted the Colombian people and its organizations in various ways in the pursuit of the peace with social justice it desires in order to achieve a sovereign, prosperous and dignified life for Colombians. For the Colombian people, 2001 will be a year of great struggles for the conquest of political power, for changing the structures of the state and government, leading to the construction of the New Pluralist, Patriotic and Democratic Colombia in which relations of friendship and mutual respect toward all states and governments prevail in favour of political, economic and cultural exchanges for regional and world integration. Only with the development of these struggles and the effective solidarity of the other peoples of the world will it be possible to defeat the ominous plan for war of the Colombian and U.S. governments. This is the alternative we have in order to resist the perverse application of Washington's strategy of intervention in the internal conflict between Colombians, which is disguised in the so-called plan to fight the narcotics traffic, better known as "Plan Colombia". The deadly results of that plan threaten the precarious subsistence of several million poor people in our country and neighbouring nations. It has devastating effects for the natural environment of the Amazon Basin and its blessing of biodiversity. It is a crime against the sovereignty of Colombia and the dignity of its people and against the countries of the Amazon and their peoples. As a Machiavellian means to involve the European Union and other countries in this war, the governments of the U.S. and Colombia, with unusual desperation, are trying to hastily get them to contribute millions of dollars to cover the social costs of the "Plan". While the Yankees contribute the weapons of death and destruction, the others would provide the first aid to heal the lesser wounds caused by this new adventure of U.S. imperialism and its lackeys of the Pastrana administration. Consequently, all economic contributions to "Plan Colombia" or any of its components will be considered as interference in our internal conflict and that is not what the majority of Colombians expect of the international community. The objectives of peace with social justice we Colombians are pursuing will be achieved by guaranteeing employment with wages in line with the high cost of living; with authentic land reform that returns the land to those who work it, providing them with cheap credit, technical assistance and marketing for their products at prices corresponding to the high costs of production. Peace will be achieved by solving the short falls in housing, health care, education, communications and electrification for the industrial and technical progress of the country. Peace demands state protection for the political, social, economic, ethnic, religious and cultural rights of all Colombians. Definitive and lasting peace will be reached when the right to a decent life and Colombia's right to free self-determination with sovereignty and real independence, are guaranteed by the state and its government. The 36 long years of the FARC-EP's revolutionary struggle, inspired by Marxist Leninist ideology and the thinking of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar, commit us to a life long battle along side the poorest, for the conquest and defence of the fundamental rights of the majorities of our country. This is because we understand that all of us Colombians have the right and duty to build our own destiny, which will never be one of exclusion, exploitation, intimidation and repression. By every means, the FARC-EP shall insist on the pursuit of dialogues, not giving up on them as the effective mechanism for national reconciliation between Colombians until a treaty for real and lasting peace is signed. With Bolivar, for peace and national sovereignty, opening paths toward the New Colombia! International Commission of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army, FARC-EP. 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