Our Trip to Colombia
Hello everyone. Hope everyone is enjoying your summer.
Here are some pictures of our trip to Colombia.
Sorry so late. Enjoy.
On July 20th. More than 10 million people around the world set out to the streets on a march demanding freedom, peace and Colombia, or FARC without illegal armed groups.
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2 comments:
Wow, Luz. I thought the Gomez family was having a reunion in Colombia (which, I think, you did!). I did not know about this peace march. I was ignorant about FARC too, though I knew of guerrillas in Colombia.
(from Wiwipedia on FARC:
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo), also known by the acronym of FARC or FARC-EP, is a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization.
The FARC is recognized as a terrorist group by the Colombian government, the United States Department of State, Canada and the European Union. However, Cuba, Venezuela, and other socialist countries are more sympathetic to the FARC.[citation needed] Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, for example, publicly rejected their classification as "terrorists" in January 2008 and called on the Colombian government and international community to recognize the guerrillas as a “belligerent force”, arguing that this would then oblige them to renounce kidnappings and terror acts in order to respect the Geneva Conventions.
The FARC was established in the 1960s as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party. The FARC originated as a guerrilla movement. The group later became involved with the cocaine trade during the 1980s for the purposes of fundraising, but remained closely tied to the Communist Party even as it created the Patriotic Union in the early 1980s and later a political structure it calls the Clandestine Colombian Communist Party.
According to the Colombian government, FARC has an estimated 6,000-8,000 members in 2008, down from 16,000 in 2001, making it the largest as well as the oldest insurgent group in the Americas. Other available estimates are higher, including up to 18,000 guerrillas.
The FARC-EP is present in 15-20 percent of Colombia’s territory, most strongly in the southeastern jungles and in the plains at the base of the Andean mountains. )
WOWWWW thanks for the educational information! I had no idea either! Well, it was good talking to you the other night Luz! Hopefully, we get get together soon!
Luv,
Vickie.
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