http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBdxLwWjik4 FARC Boss Reappears, Disproving Reports of his Death<http://www.panamericanpost.blogspot.com/2012/08/farc-boss-reappears-disproving-reports.html> High-ranking FARC commander Jose Benito Cabrera, alias "Fabian Ramirez," who was thought to have died in a bombing raid in 2010, has reappeared with an interview in which he calls for peace with the Colombian government.
President Juan Manuel Santos announced the guerrilla leader's apparent death in November 2010, after his personal possessions were found in the debris left by an air force raid on a FARC camp. However, in June the following year the armed forces said<http://www.insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1136-farc-commander-fabian-ramirez-alive> that Fabian Ramirez was likely still alive, based on intelligence from demobilized guerrillas. Now, Caracol<http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/judicial/alias-fabian-ramirez-acusa-a-militares-de-oponerse-a-la-paz/20120731/nota/1733043.aspx> has published a video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBdxLwWjik4> of the rebel boss being interviewed by independent journalist Karl Penhaul. In the interview, Fabian Ramirez says that the FARC is interested in ending the war, and that lower ranking soldiers also want it to end, but that the government and the military leadership have economic interests in carrying on with the war business. We must end this war, coming to an agreement between the government and the guerrillas, without hate, without advantages, giving in, looking at who is fundamentally right They shouldnt just say Hand over your arms and stop attacking the security forces, its not like that. Here, to finish the war, we must end the causes of the war. He also spoke of humanizing the conflict, and confirmed that the FARC have ceased kidnapping for economic gain, though he said they would not stop detaining members of the security forces, as they are prisoners of war. According to Semana<http://www.semana.com/nacion/reaparece-jefe-farc-creia-muerto/181869-3.aspx> magazine, Fabian Ramirez headed the FARCs 14th Front until 2004, and then became the second-in-command of the Southern Bloc. He is now thought to head the bloc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
