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2021-12-01 Caribbean-Latin America
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US officially pulls Colombian rebels FARC off foreign terror group list
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[NYPOST] The State Department announced Tuesday that it had officially removed the far-left rebel group Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.The announcement came on the fifth anniversary of an agreement negotiated by FARC and Colombia’s government meant to end more than 50 years of fighting.
According to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, FARC "formally dissolved and disarmed" after the 2016 treaty was brokered, and the rebel group is no longer a unified organization "that engages in terrorism or terrorist activity or has the capability or intent to do so."
"Now everything will be right as rain"
Blinken added that removing the foreign terrorist group designation from FARC does not affect criminal charges that have been or may be brought by the US against the rebel group’s onetime leaders.
Nor, the secretary continued, does the move undo judgments by a special Colombian court "which found their actions to be crimes against humanity."
FARC was first designated a terrorist organization by the US in 1997. In its place, Blinken announced foreign terrorist organization designations for two splinter groups,  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 was greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provided FARC with safe areas along the border.
— People’s Army (FARC-EP), and Segunda Marquetalia, as well as their respective leaders.
Both breakaway groups were founded in 2019 and have since engaged in terrorist activity in the South American nation. According to Blinken, both organizations have targeted former members of FARC as well as politicians for liquidation and kidnapping.
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