-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 12:19 AM Subject: [ NSP ] Colombia, Vietnam, and Kosovo > Colombia, Vietnam, and Kosovo > > Colombia: another Viet Nam? was the subject of a public meeting at > Leiden > University. Organized by: Interlatina, Latin America Studies Society of > the University. It was on Thursday 30 November, main building, > Cleveringaplaats 1, hall 028. > > The packed big hall listed attentively to the two orators: Sebastian > Linares and Carolina García, both representatives of the Colombian > revolutionary movement FARC-EP. A video by Dutch TV journalists was > shown, > interviewing a farmer whose banana plantation had been sprayed by US > airplanes, supposedly "anti-drug" planes, with poisonous chemicals, > killing his baby daughter, and making it now impossible for the farmer to > grow anything but coca leaves to survive. > > Sebastian Linares explained a ten point peace plan by FARC, and told how > his movement wanted peace; however, not the peace of the grave, as in > previous instances when dead squads had used armistices to kill guerilla > fighters who had lain down arms. FARC, he said, had been founded in the > 1960s, by peasants, after their attempts at peaceful resistance to > exploitation had met with deadly state violence. > > He criticized the bases for US warplanes going to Colombia on the > Netherlands Antilles islands. There should be peace between Colombians. > However, the US government and Clinton's militaristic "Plan Colombia" and > maybe other NATO governments in their wake threatened to wreck this; > somewhat similarly to Vietnam. > > Sebastian Linares also compared Plan Colombia to NATO strategy > around the > Kosovo war. Like with the bombing of Yugoslavia, the big money of Plan > Colombia was mainly money for destructive war, to be paid by the US > taxpayers. Reconstruction after the war was supposed to be paid by the > people of Yugoslavia and Western Europe; and in Colombia by the people > of > Colombia and Western Europe. > > The meeting lasted over four hours, with many questions asked. At the end, > with the audience applauding, the chair of Interlatina gave the FARC > representatives each a Dutch cheese as a present. > > Met vriendelijke groet/Best wishes, > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Herman de Tollenaere > --------------------------------------------------------------------- My > Internet site on Asian history and "new" religions: > > http://homes.dsl.nl/~hermantl/ > > See also SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society: > > http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > STOP NOVOM SVETSKOM PORETKU > > ___________________________________________________________ > T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 > Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
