OSWALDO ARREDONDO - Tuluá (Valle) COLOMBIA
The noted French analyst's article Guy Sorman, published in The Figaro of Paris
Passed February 21, the Colombian Army entered in a territory of the size of Switzerland that located in the heart of the country it served until then of demilitarized refuge, granted to the oldest guerrilla in Latin America, the Farc, Revolutionary Armed forces of Colombia. That front is the last of the guerilla expressions organized by Fidel Castro in the decade of the 60.
Well it is known that all they have always benefitted of a certain indulgence on behalf of the governments and of the intellectuals of left of Europe. Have not they always been unjust the Latin American societies and don't they deserve to be cured by the revolutionary therapy?
In last case, well it could be believed in that gender of stupidities, born of the crossing of the Marxism and of the romanticism of the decade of the 60. But in our time, it is surprising that the fight that gets rid against the Colombian guerrilla wakes up so little interest and solidarity that is to say on behalf of what calls you the International Community for convenience, the western governments more the CNU.
While the terrorism raises reprehension and universal rejection, the guerilla fighter it conserves a certain aura of nostalgia that protects it of that same condemnation. For which magic effect? Is it that it would be possible to distinguish the perfidious terrorist's good guerilla fighter and which would the distinctive sign of that division be? Which revolution?
In Colombia, the revolutionary guerilla's fighter's last refuge, the Farc, has on the weapons near 30 thousand men that murder per year some 5.000 people and they kidnap 3.000. Their figure yearly of business it overcomes the 1.500 million dollars, of which third two parts come from the traffic of cocaine and the balance of rescues and other extortions. There is in Colombia other two movements of guerrillas, the one one born of the Catholic theology of the liberation (ELN) and the other one a force of self-defense antimarxista that you/they take a similar activity and they feed of the same trade bottom.
So much violence and do so many resources have for destination the service of the poor? Because very on the contrary, they are the weakest in the Colombian society those that suffer the worst in the actions of the guerrillas and particularly of the Marxist Farc.
The peasants are expelled of their lands to give place to the culture of the coca and of the poppy and the extortions hit the humble ones, while the elites have the comfort at least of to pay bodyguard and to close up among armored vehicles. They are also the poor those that suffer the destruction of the Colombian economy more directly: the bombarded infrastructures, the investments that go away and the employments that fall, have there how the drug traffic prospers to coast of the companies and of the employments.
If 20 years ago the Marxist guerillas fighters could still make believe the peasants and the credulous intellectuals that advanced a social revolution, today nobody believes in Colombia similar lie. All the Colombians know well that the guerilla fighter is not more than a manager of drug traffic and kidnappings.
This experience that the Colombian town lives surpasses the frontiers of the information difficultly. As much in Europe as in United States, the means and the humanitarian ONG they are always clever to denounce the attacks to the human rights, supposedly accomplished for the military ones Colombian, but not the guerrilla's mutation in a transnational company of murderers.
That the Farc works for their personal benefit they attest it the voluptuous train of life of their bosses and the world market of the drug, of which Colombia is only the first link. It is proven that Basque of the ETA, and Irish of the ANGER, they were discovered in the areas dominated by the Marxist guerrilla, that which establishes the bonds in the methods and the financings among all these armies of "liberation."
Will it exist today a single movement in the world that doesn't have in the traffic of the drug their main financing source? Perhaps nr. Without the Afghan heroine, To the Quaeda would never have had financial means so considerable.
The Colombian solitude is surprising, after verifying these facts that the Colombian Army is alone in its fight against the Farc, hardly with a meager logistical support of United States and some verbal supports of the European states. For many, what we will make him, the Farc should not made a mistake with the terrorists, since finally of bills they are revolutionary and Marxists.
It is surprising, after verifying these facts that the Colombian Army is alone in its fight against the Farc. Have good luck then the military ones Colombian that the International Community the aim with sympathy, but from the balcony, and in no way there in the jungla, where they are plentiful the heat and the mosquitos so much.
After all, Afghanistan is not only healthier but simpler and the terrorists are not of left.. to Sustain that the free world is in war against the terrorism is not then more than a compassionate lie. Oneself is deceived when it seeks that the Colombian guerilla fighter is not a terrorist, only because he is a guerilla fighter. In the same way the Palestinian martyr is not a terrorist, since he is a martyr. It is necessary not to make a mistake of label, in such a way that can spend without damage through the filter of the international reprehension.
To all that said it fits him an alternative, less ideological analysis that the precedent, affirming that the matter of the FARC doesn't concern us in the measure in that to combat him is an interior business of Colombia. But the Farc works for the export. Almost the entirety of the drug that you/they cultivate and they process comes dedicated to the North American and European consumers.
The toxicomania takes wrapped up the problem of the true economic benefits of the drug traffic. A gram of cocaine means three dollars for the Colombian cocalero that cultivates it, while sells it to 100 dollars to the consumers from New York or Parisian. Of the value of the world market of the drug, estimated in 150.000 million dollars, 3% hardly stays in Colombia.
Among so much, the murderous nice Colombian guerilla fighter 5.000 of their fellow citizens per year, kidnaps 3.000 and it ruins all their town to give some pleasure to the jet set of here, but not to the one of there.
Let us also get very particularly the attention of the defenders of the amazonía that they are so active, to remind them that the Farc destroys around 150.000 hectares of forest per year to extend the culture of the coca.
The prosperity of the Farc makes put very in doubt the possibility the Colombian Army to be for its own means able to destroy it and it illustrates to the marvel until which point the call war against the drug that they advance for more than 40 years the United States and Europe, it has failed.
Let us see the examples of this war in Colombia. Every year, thanks to the support of United States, 150.000 hectares of plantations of coca are destroyed by fumigation; the cocaleros replants another point annually, or a little more. Another example: there are available funds so that the Colombian peasants substitute the coca with other cultivations. But the earth doesn't belong to the peasant, nobody grants him credit and anything produces him as much gain as the coca.
The modest prosperity of the cocalero, the most considerable in the guerilla fighter, and the immense of the drug dealer from Cali or New York or Paris, they are not explained by the coca in yes neither for the poppy that you/they don't pass of being weeds.
If tomorrow the UN prohibited the soup of nettles, the nettles would take place as much as the coca and the peasants from Colombia would be devoted to cultivate it. The price of the coca and of the poppy it is hardly the consequence of their prohibition and the guerillas fighters enjoy this prohibition, as much as the American mafias they benefitted of the prohibition of the alcohol in the decade of the 20.
It is as well as the guerilla fighter appears with the aureole of an international, first double protection the revolutionary romanticism and at once the prohibition of the drug.
To unite to the Colombians, in their fight against the Farc, and to get rid of once and for all of them, it would suppose to recognize that those pseudo-Marxists are not more than an union of the crime. And it would suppose equally to admit the total failure of the prohibition like fight method against the drug.
But, being the taboo and much easier topic to prohibit the drug that to discuss the effectiveness of this prohibition, the international community is limited to want good luck to the Colombian Army and nothing else.
If we end up supposing that this army breaks the Farc and the other guerrillas of the same type, would the economic base of those movements disappear? Of course that nr. The economy of the drug, compensation of its prohibition, present will be always.
Let us add another paradox of this ridiculous war: she doesn't stop to be strange on behalf of the nations that are said in alliance against the terrorism, the one that you/they are devoted to combat the blanqueamiento of the funds that feed those terrorist nets, without wondering if it is not the prohibition the first cause of their prosperity.
The business of the drug traffic represents in the world an equivalent figure to that of the pharmaceutical industry. But if the medications are expensive, it is because they are useful. On the other hand, the drug is not expensive but rather he/she becomes such because of its interdiction.
If to liquidate the guerrillas and to reduce the terrorism depends on drying the sources of their resources, this operation would demand a more intelligent politics that the prohibition.
There is several other alternatives to the prohibition, and it won't be of the case to mention them here all. Let us only mention a, when happening that is the one of transforming the drug into a medical problem. But that debate would demand the political anger that is necessary at this time in Europe and stiller in United States.
It is that the opinion has not understood the relationship that exists among prohibition, it still drugs and terrorism. So don't wake up the opinion that sleeps neither to the politician that the anesthesia and let us let the Colombians to die: be Colombia so far! But at least, let us know that those soldiers die there, for us those of here.
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