{"id":1051432,"date":"2021-11-24T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1051432"},"modified":"2021-11-24T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:59:03","slug":"report-joe-biden-to-strip-colombian-farc-communists-of-terrorist-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-biden-to-strip-colombian-farc-communists-of-terrorist-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Joe Biden to Strip Colombian FARC Communists of Terrorist Designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-joe-biden-to-strip-colombian-farc-communists-of-terrorist-designation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1051432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Anonymous alleged \u201cU.S. and congressional officials\u201d told the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>this week President Joe Biden is planning to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a nearly 60-year-old terrorist organization <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/687aabf1f89044ddb08d8cae7afd0f60\">responsible<\/a> for hundreds of thousands of deaths, from America\u2019s list of designated foreign terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>The FARC, a communist group, has been responsible for a wide variety of human rights atrocities in Colombia since its founding in 1964 that include mass killings, kidnappings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/08\/16\/ngo-marxist-farc-terrorists-linked-232-sexual-crime-cases-minors\/\">child rape<\/a>, forced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/12\/11\/colombia-seeks-farc-house-nurse-responsible-500-forced-abortions\/\">abortions<\/a>, the use of child soldiers, and one of the world\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/insightcrime.org\/news\/analysis\/farc-riches-yearly-income-up-to-580-million\/\">lucrative<\/a> drug trafficking operations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The government of then-President Juan Manuel Santos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/11\/25\/colombia-denies-second-vote-farc-peace-deal\/\">rammed<\/a> a \u201cpeace deal,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/10\/03\/colombia-rejects-farc-peace-deal-shock-referendum\/\">against<\/a> the will of the Colombian people, with FARC terror leaders in 2016, granting terrorists uncontested seats in Congress and several other major concessions, including allowing them to establish a formal political party without imposing restrictions on the use of profits from international drug trafficking. The deal preceded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2018\/09\/20\/colombia-cocaine-boom-after-deal-farc-communists\/\">record<\/a> cocaine production, an ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/05\/06\/acab-terrorist-mobs-burn-police-alive-colombia\/\">wave<\/a> of leftist mob violence, and a situation in which unelected federal lawmakers are threatening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/02\/23\/colombia-terrorist-turned-congressman-threatens-kill-president\/\">kill<\/a> the nation\u2019s democratically elected president from unknown locations in the jungles of Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Santos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/colombias-president-santos-receives-nobel-peace-prize\/\">won<\/a> the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the FARC peace deal claim, despite contravening evidence, that most of the low-level fighters in the terrorist group \u2013 many of them forced into terrorism after being abducted and abused as children \u2013 have abandoned terrorism and handed their weapons over to the Colombian government. The fact that senior FARC members, with the glaring exception of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/03\/09\/farc-withdraws-colombian-presidential-election-leader-heart-attack\/\">failed<\/a> presidential candidate \u201cTimochenko,\u201d have continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/09\/30\/colombia-fugitive-farc-senator-resurfaces-propaganda-demanding-presidents-resignation\/\">engage<\/a> in drug trafficking and guerrilla violence has not deterred this narrative, particularly in Washington.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-to-remove-colombian-rebel-group-farc-from-terrorist-list-in-support-of-five-year-old-peace-pact-11637688001?mod=e2tw\">placed<\/a> a heavy emphasis on the alleged demobilization of low-level FARC terrorists despite the ongoing activities of the group\u2019s leaders in its report on Biden potentially removing them from America\u2019s formal list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FARC began to demobilize shortly after the signing, with 13,000 men and women laying down their arms,\u201d the corporate newspaper asserted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18883994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236590572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18883994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236590572-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Graffiti of FARC leader Manuel Marulanda is seen at El Oso Territorial Training and Reincorporation Area (ETCR), in Gaitania, Tolima Department, Colombia, on October 27, 2021. (RAUL ARBOLEDA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The newspaper offered little information on who had claimed that Biden would strip the FARC of its terrorist label and the White House has yet to weigh in on the measure. It claimed that the Biden administration would offer a formal announcement on the matter by November 30, the five-year anniversary of the unpopular \u201cpeace deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration will remove a former Colombian rebel group from a list of foreign terrorist organizations, a measure intended to demonstrate American support for a fragile peace agreement with the guerrillas in Colombia, said U.S. and congressional officials with knowledge of the coming announcement,\u201d according to the <em>Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The move \u201csends the signal to the FARC, \u2018it is been five years, you\u2019ve done your bit, behaved properly, and we\u2019re delisting you,\u2019\u201d former Santos administration official Sergio Jaramillo told the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. Jaramillo referred to the move as \u201clow-cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> noted that delisting the FARC as a terrorist organization allowed the government of the United States to fund the group.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>To address the fact that FARC leaders like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/interpol-red-notices-re-issued-top-ex-farc-boss-ivan-marquez-colombia-says-2021-08-04\/\">Iv\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez<\/a>\u201d remain active in terrorism, the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> claimed that Biden would simply rebrand the actual FARC leaders and label them, under the name \u201cNew Marquetal\u00eda group,\u201d a designated terrorist organization, but remove the FARC from the list by name. M\u00e1rquez and now-dead FARC leader \u201cJes\u00fas Santrich,\u201d once offered a lawmaker position through the \u201cpeace deal,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/08\/29\/colombia-terrorist-farc-senators-launch-guerrilla-struggle-trashing-peace-deal\/\">resurfaced<\/a> after disappearing in 2019 in propaganda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/09\/30\/colombia-fugitive-farc-senator-resurfaces-propaganda-demanding-presidents-resignation\/\">videos<\/a> calling for a \u201cnew Marquetal\u00eda,\u201d or guerrilla struggle, against the government of current Colombian President Iv\u00e1n Duque. Duque, of the conservative Democratic Center party, <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/internacional\/2018\/06\/18\/colombia\/1529351991_715042.html\">won<\/a> the presidency in part as a result of popular disgust with Santos\u2019 FARC policies.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the \u201cNew Marquetalia\u201d FARC leaders, however, Duque\u2019s government has stated publicly that it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/05\/06\/acab-terrorist-mobs-burn-police-alive-colombia\/\">evidence<\/a> that FARC members have participated in a wave of urban violence that hit nearly every city in the country early this year after leftist groups called for a \u201cnational strike\u201d against the government. Masked attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/05\/06\/acab-terrorist-mobs-burn-police-alive-colombia\/\">firebombed<\/a> police stations, burned down churches, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/05\/10\/violence-in-colombia-locals-fight-off-indigenous-protesters-with-machetes\/\">ransacked<\/a> residential neighborhoods and hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/05\/13\/colombia-mobs-attack-medical-supply-trucks-leftist-riots\/\">shipments<\/a> for weeks following the call for a \u201cnational strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have determined that [involved in] the disorder and vandalism occurring in Cali in last days there are structures tied to drug trafficking, the ELN [National Liberation Army, another communist terror group], and FARC,\u201d Colombian Attorney General&nbsp;Francisco Barbosa Delgado said in May. Cali endured some of the worst of the violence among Colombia\u2019s major cities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18884018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236590629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18884018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236590629-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Colombian soldier patrols in Marquetalia, the birthplace of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Tolima Department, Colombia, on October 27, 2021 (RAUL ARBOLEDA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Legitimizing the FARC has been a priority for Biden Democrats since the Obama administration. Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/04\/14\/obama-removes-farc-hezbollah-tied-cuban-regime-from-state-dept-terror-list\/\">succeeded<\/a> in de-listing the FARC in 2015 despite its extensive record of terrorism and ties to other terrorist groups such as Hezbollah after sending then-Secretary of State John Kerry to Cuba to meet with the group\u2019s terror leaders. Kerry \u2013 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/22\/john-kerry-softening-u-s-stance-uyghur-slave-labor-which-he-financially-benefits\/\">ally<\/a> of other communist human rights criminals like the Chinese Communist Party \u2013 was one of the world\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/co.usembassy.gov\/statement-secretary-state-john-kerry-colombias-peace-process\/\">enthusiastic<\/a> supporters of the Santos \u201cpeace deal\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased that, after more than four years of intensive talks, the Colombian government and the FARC have achieved breakthroughs on some of the most challenging issues before them,\u201d Kerry said in 2016. \u201cPresident Santos deserves credit for his courage, leadership, and unwavering commitment to peace. \u2026 I also want to recognize the hard work of the negotiating teams and the constructive role played by the governments of Norway and Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration also removed Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list despite its open collaboration with the FARC and ties to other terrorist entities like the government of Iran, also on the state sponsors list.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump returned both the FARC and Cuba to their respective lists.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637839367589000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1xZ9qF8gkPD0iPE8F5_2Jk\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637839367589000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2fa3a0oYmUDQkjH4detcuH\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous alleged \u201cU.S. and congressional officials\u201d told the\u00a0Wall Street Journal this week President Joe Biden is planning to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a nearly 60-year-old terrorist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}