[ May 1, 2024 ]
The Biden Administration consistently goes from bad to worse. It’s incredible. We will have to wait and see if this decision has any impact on Colombia’s next presidential election in May of 2022. Read Senator Cruz’s statements here.
HOUSTON, Texas – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, member of SFRC, released the following statement after the State Department notified Congress it intends to change the status of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO):
Story continues below advertisement“President Biden’s foreign policy long ago veered into inconsistency and incoherence, but he has shown remarkable commitment and purpose in dismantling terrorism sanctions against violent groups that threaten the national security of us and our allies.
Biden-Harris officials made it a Week 1 priority to take the Iran-controlled Houthis off the terrorism list, and the Houthis responded by escalating their aggression and further hindering humanitarian assistance.
Now the administration is taking steps to do the same thing for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The results of such a reckless, ideologically-driven decision will also be the same.
The FARC is an organization of Marxist–Leninist narco-terrorists. For decades they have killed, kidnapped, and extorted Colombians. They have murdered and seized American citizens. They continue to pose an acute threat to Colombian security and to American interests across the region.
Instead of bolstering our Colombian allies as they battled against the FARC and trying to bring FARC members to justice, the Biden administration is again preparing to abandon our allies and appease terrorists. Removing FARC from the list of terrorism organizations will embolden them to widen their violence and interfere with civilian activities.
It is long past time for Congress to take action and restore oversight over this administration’s foreign policy, and to signal to our allies that we stand with them and to terrorist groups that they will be held accountable.”
.@tedcruz Hits Biden's Foreign Policy As Appeasement Towards Terroristshttps://t.co/BCXvyee7CJ
— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) November 30, 2021
Last week Joe Biden decided that the FARC, a Marxist–Leninist organization that seeks to take over #Colombia through bombings,murder,drug trafficking, extortion & kidnap/ransom should no longer be considered a foreign terrorist organization
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 29, 2021
Biden failed to firmly back the pro-democracy protestors in Cuba, and now he has removed FARC from the list of terrorist organizations.
Instead of siding with the millions of Americans whose families have suffered and fled, he is empowering Marxists instead.
— Ronna McDaniel (@RonnaMcDaniel) December 1, 2021
US lifts terrorist designation for Colombia’s FARC
By I-24 News, November 30, 2021
The two dissident groups that formed out of FARC were designated as foreign terrorist organizations
The United States on Tuesday revoked its designation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as a foreign terrorist organization.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that FARC no longer exists as a unified group that engages in terrorism, and was formally dissolved in 2016 after a Peace Accord with the Colombian government.
Blinken added that the two dissident groups that formed out of FARC – La Segunda Marquetalia and People’s Army (FARC-EP) – were designated as foreign terrorist organizations, Reuters reported.
Today, the U.S. government revoked FARC’s terrorist designation in recognition of its formal dissolution following the 2016 Peace Accord. We also designated two new groups as part of our sustained effort to isolate and expose terrorists. https://t.co/r337CatPyz
— Matthew Miller (@StateDeptSpox) November 30, 2021
“The decision to revoke the designation does not change the posture with regards to any charges or potential charges in the United States against former leaders of the FARC, including for narcotrafficking,” Blinken said.
Lifting the terrorist designation will make it easier for the US to support the implementation of the 2016 Peace Accord, he said.
Government bodies like the Agency for International Development will now be allowed to work on peace implementation in parts of Colombia where FARC soldiers are located.
Formed in 1964, FARC is responsible for several executions and kidnappings of thousands of people, according to Reuters.
FARC held me & my colleagues hostage for 5+ years. They executed our pilot & host nation rider. In captivity we were tortured, held in cages, & chained by the neck. I’m only 1 from thousands of victims. Delisting FARC as a terror group is absolutely wrong. https://t.co/FAvtOoscHV
— Marc D Gonsalves (@marc_gonsalves) November 24, 2021
Blinken urged that the “designation of FARC-EP and Segunda Marquetalia is directed at those who refused to demobilize and those who are engaged in terrorist activity.”
The leaders of those organizations were also designated as global terrorists, he added.
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