Colombians around the world rally against FARC
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Monday 4 February 2008 23:06 COT
Just a little fragment of the crowd walking through the Santander Avenue, in Manizales, central Colombia (Photo: John Jairo Bonilla / equinoXio)
It started as a Facebook group on 4 January 2008, created by engineer Óscar Morales. Soon, it reached thousands of members, given the huge popularity that social network enjoys in Colombia, and later it was endorsed by the media and the Colombian government. One million voices against FARC turned out a huge worldwide event against a revolutionary group which turned into a drug and kidnapping cartel. Today, millions of Colombians in dozens of cities and more than 40 countries demonstrated against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Nevertheless, the country remains divided, because FARC is not the only violent group terrorizing the Nation, neither the main problem Colombia faces. There are fears the march would mean an endorsement for a stronger war defence policy by president Álvaro Uribe’s administration.
Still, it was a unique opportunity for Colombians to show FARC that they don’t recognize them as a "people’s army", which has actually perpetrated crimes against civil population, became a drug cartel, recruited children, and kidnapping, besides military and police people considered ‘prisoners’, dozens of innocent civilians. No more FARC was the cry the world heard between 2 and 4 February 2008.
equinoXio english edition is making a huge coverage, which will be available for our English-speaking readers. If you’re too anxious or if you can read Spanish, you can go to the special at our sister publication or read an excellent summary with links to other sites by Global Voices Online’s Juliana Rincón. These are the articles translated into English so far:
- Miami: “No more FARC, no more kidnappings”
- March against FARC in Chía, Colombia
- March against FARC in Bilbao, Spain
- March against FARC in Bogotá’s Calle 127
- March against FARC in Manizales, Colombia
- Colombians in Japan and Australia march against FARC
- March against FARC starts in Atlanta
[Updated 05.02.2008 09:11, 19:26]
Tags: Colombia, Colombian diaspora, demonstration, FARC, guerrilla, March against FARC, No more FARC, terrorism
friday 8 february 2008, 0:22 COT
Bravo Colombians!! You have done it!. You all behaved like little robots connected to a computer that controls your little brains. The experiment was successful; now get ready for the real thing.
“March against FARC” was the first command of a software subroutine called “Uribe second re-election”, which is also part of a software routine called “Consolidation of the Paramilitary Dictatorship”.
This software routine is like a kind of computer game where Uribe with his chainsaw plays the Terminator role. In this computer program Uribe is sent from the future, his mission is to eliminate little Emmanuel who will lead humans in the final battle against the centrally controlled robots for the survival of the human race.
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