‘The Most Important Blow Ever Against the FARC’
There’s good news from Colombia. The government announced on Wednesday morning that the FARC’s senior military commander, Mono Jojoy, was killed during an operation that started Monday against a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) stronghold in the Macarena region. The operation involved four branches of the military, 30 planes, and 27 helicopters.
Jojoy, also known as Jorge Briceno but whose name was Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, had a price on his head of $5 million and had evaded justice for a decade. He had been indicted in the U.S. for the murder of three U.S. citizens, drug trafficking, and terrorist activities. Jojoy was the military mastermind of the organization, in charge of the FARC’s strongest division. He entered the FARC when he was 12 years old and had close links to the drug trafficking organizations funding the terrorists.
Just a day or two earlier, the FARC had refused to give up violence in advance of the peace talks that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos had proposed. Santos, who was minister of national defense from 2006 to 2009, had demanded that the FARC end all hostilities and release all hostages prior to the talks.
During Santos’ tenure as minister of defense, the Colombian government killed FARC secretariat member Raul Reyes in an air raid on a FARC camp inside Ecuadorian borders and rescued many high-profile hostages such as Ingrid Betancourt and Fernando Araújo Perdomo, as well as Americans Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell.
After Santos was inaugurated, the proposal for peace talks was made, growing out of the Colombian government’s peace and reconciliation movement. However, the FARC might have misinterpreted it as a possible sign of weakness and upped the violence. This month, over 40 Colombian police and military have been killed in attacks by the FARC.
Great. Now that they will be in disarray, attack them with great ferocity, risk much, and kill as many of those 4,000 terrorist maggots as possible. Destroy everything they touch and everyone they love.
Put on the mindset of General Sherman and crush them. End this.
This is fantastic news! I know some Colombians were worried that Santos — of all people— was going soft with all the talk about “dialogue.” I guess FARC bought into that as well.
Now it is clear that Santos will only negotiate from a position of strength and with people who are willing to renounce barbarism.
The Colombian forces have just shown that terrorists can in fact be defeated. Failing to do so only leads to a return to the dark ages. Let’s not forget that, in the 21st century, most of humanity is still living under one form of tyranny or another. Let’s face it, in pure statistical terms, tyranny is the normal state of human societies. No matter how much it may reflect the highest human aspirations, everything else is definitely against all probability, comes only at a stiff price, and is worthy of a vigorous defense, because the rule of law is still an exceptional and blessed environment in our time on this planet.
Three cheers for Colombia, and Gracias Amigos for showing how it’s done!
Now, some ingenious tea party supporter needs to get into the public eye and ear with the connection between FARC and the Democratic Party of the United States. Which has been one of the contributing reasons for the absence of Colombia from favorable trade treaties with the US.
It will take a tea party bloke, because the Republicans certainly didn’t succeed (if they even tried), and the MSM are still enthralled with terrorists under swanky acronyms who are conducting an ‘armed struggle’ (complete with leftist slogans) to seize power.
Your point about Colombia NOT having been admitted as a trade preferred partner is extremely important…but as we can see from the number of comments (5 when I am writing….)to this column, the American public is still very far from understanding the structure and the ways of the international subversion.
By creating problems to the Colombian government,our Congress actively supports the marxist terrorists and narcotraficantes…
and the American public thinks it can ignore it without consequences…
All of that “armed struggle” talk from the South American left is so 20th Century. Seize power like the left in the US did, with election fraud and judicial activism.
i’m with jerome. kill em all.
“Why do terrorists operate in groups of three?” A. “One can read, one can write and one to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.”