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2019-09-11 Caribbean-Latin America
Colombia Mourns Conservative Mayoral Candidate as FARC War Heats Up
[BREITBART] Orley García, conservative candidate for the mayorship of Toledo, Antioquia, Colombia, became the latest victim of suspected Marxist FARC terrorism, dying after being shot 13 times, El Tiempo reported Sunday.

García joins Karina García Sierra, mayoral candidate killed while campaigning in Cauca, and Betsaida Montejo Pérez, who survived a grenade attack on her home in San Calixto, where she is running for mayor. The three are the latest victims of an active liquidation campaign by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border.
(FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), communist narco-terrorist organizations active in the country.

Under former President Juan Manuel Santos, Bogotá legalized the FARC as a political party and granted it ten seats in the Colombian Senate uncontested. Two of the men who received those seats, Lions of Islam "Jesús Santrich" and "Iván Márquez," appeared in a video two weeks ago announcing that, despite the peace deal agreement, the FARC would once again take up arms and kill people who stood in the way of its vast cocaine empire.

The disintegration of the FARC deal followed the arrest this year of Santrich, who is still technically a senator, for allegedly trying to smuggle 10,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States after signing the 2016 peace deal.

The nominal head of the FARC, the terrorist "Timochenko," has publicly opposed the new war and claimed that 90 percent of FARC Lions of Islam have given up violence. Many mainstream media sites refer to the FARC leadership that called for a new war on the Colombian government as "dissidents" because "Timochenko" has not joined them.

Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for legitimizing the FARC.

El Tiempo, one of Colombia’s largest newspapers, reported on Sunday that García was shot "over ten times" and taken as quickly as possible to a nearby hospital, but "due to his critical state, it became necessary to transport him to the regional capital," Medellín. He died on the flight over.

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