FARC, the Spanish acronym of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, "No longer exists as a unified organization that engages in terrorism or terrorist activity or has the capability or intent to do so," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Tuesday.
An estimated 260,000 people were killed during the decades when Colombia was fractured by civil war, according to CBC. As noted by the BBC, former FARC commanders were charged with war crimes after Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace found that 21,396 people had been abducted between 1990 and 2016 as part of FARC's scheme of kidnapping and torturing victims until ransom was paid, with about 2,000 of them never seen alive again.
I would like the Biden administration to know that in the Colombian Congress there are senators from the FARC accused of rape of minors, such as Carlos Lozada, alias "Screw".
Cruz to Biden official: "Given that appeasement didn't work w/ the Houthis in Yemen, given that it didn't work w/ the Taliban why does the admin believe that weakness & appeasement & delisting the FARC as terrorists will produce anything but terrible results in Colombia?" pic.
"The Biden Administration's decision to remove the FARC from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list risks emboldening narcoterrorists and the regimes that sponsor them throughout our region," he said.
Last week Joe Biden decided that the FARC, a Marxist-Leninist organization that seeks to take over #Colombia through bombings,murder,drug trafficking, extortion & kidnap/ransom should no longer be considered a foreign terrorist organization.
"President Biden's decision to remove the FARC from the State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations will embolden terrorist groups throughout Latin America, empower narco-traffickers and pave the way for Castro-chavismo in Colombia," Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said in a statement, according to The New York Times.
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