Prominent members of Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, including Ivan Marquez (center) say they are relaunching the group that demobilized after a 2016 peace deal Screen Grab Courtesy
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald: Colombia’s armed rebels are back, with Venezuela’s help. This could trigger regional conflict
Many see the announcement by a dissident group of Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) rebels that they will break a 3-year-old peace deal and resume armed struggle as a domestic problem. But, more likely, it will become a Colombia-Venezuela dispute — and perhaps escalate into a regional conflict.
Colombian President Ivan Duque already has pinned the blame on Venezuela. Hours after the FARC’s Aug. 29 announcement, he said that the leftist rebels are “a narco-terrorist criminal gang that counts on the safe harbor and support of (Venezuelan) dictator Nicolás Maduro.”
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WNU Editor: Venezuela is providing a safe haven for this dissident FARC group and for the ELN. If that is not helping and assisting the fermentation of this war, I then do not know what is. And yes .... this involvement by Venezuela and Cuba will escalate into a regional conflict. Both the Maduro regime in Venezuela and the Cuban government need to deflect the focus of their failed policies and economic mismanagement to something else.
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It would take the pressure off of Venezuela from their west side.
Brazil needs to step up. The Cuba-Venezuela, Nicaragua-Bolivia axis is a clear and present danger to them (& others)
We need to barbecue some pork!
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