{"id":1081338,"date":"2021-12-03T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081338"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:36","slug":"exclusive-expert-joe-biden-delisting-farc-terrorists-will-help-them-fill-the-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-expert-joe-biden-delisting-farc-terrorists-will-help-them-fill-the-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2013 Expert: Joe Biden Delisting FARC Terrorists Will &#039;Help Them Fill the Ranks&#039;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fexclusive-expert-joe-biden-delisting-farc-terrorists-will-help-them-fill-the-ranks%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=1081338&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\">President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations this week will help still-active guerrilla fighters \u201cfill the ranks,\u201d the executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securefreesociety.org\/\">Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS)<\/a>, Joseph Humire, told Breitbart News this week.<\/p>\n<p>Humire, an expert on terrorist threats in Latin America, described the decision as a \u201cmistake\u201d that will help legitimize both the FARC and \u201ctheir enablers in Venezuela, the Maduro regime.\u201d<\/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 FARC is a nearly 60-year-old communist narco-terrorist organization responsible for a war that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/colombia-guerrilla-farc-death-toll-1.4771858\">killed<\/a> hundreds of thousands of people. The group is responsible for a long list of actions that fit the legal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/genocideprevention\/crimes-against-humanity.shtml\">definition<\/a> of crimes against humanity, including mass killings, abductions, use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/09\/13\/farc-hands-child-soldiers\/\">child soldiers<\/a>, forced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/12\/11\/colombia-seeks-farc-house-nurse-responsible-500-forced-abortions\/\">abortions<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/08\/16\/ngo-marxist-farc-terrorists-linked-232-sexual-crime-cases-minors\/\">systematic<\/a> sexual crimes against minors. Documented evidence has revealed close ties between the FARC leadership and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s socialist regime in Venezuela, <a href=\"https:\/\/securityanddefence.pl\/FARC-Hezbollah-The-success-of-Venezuela-Iran-proxy-groups-and-their-convergence-in,130934,0,2.html\">Iran<\/a> and its terror proxy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2020\/10\/08\/report-hezbollah-helped-maduro-turn-venezuela-central-hub-terrorism-west\/\">Hezbollah<\/a>, and a variety of nefarious drug trafficking operations throughout the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden State Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/11\/30\/biden-admin-strips-colombias-hezbollah-tied-farc-terrorists-of-terrorist-label\/\">announcement<\/a> that it would remove the FARC from its list of formal terrorist groups followed the five-year anniversary of a \u201cpeace deal\u201d between the government of then-President Juan Manuel Santos and senior FARC leaders that resulted in the party receiving uncontested seats in Congress and the creation of a separate tribunal to process FARC crimes, independent of the Colombian judicial system. The peace deal, which the Colombian people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/10\/03\/colombia-rejects-farc-peace-deal-shock-referendum\/\">rejected<\/a> in a referendum, preceded skyrocketing rates of cocaine cultivation and outsized leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/06\/09\/civilians-machetes-take-leftist-rioters-colombia\/\">mob violence<\/a> in major cities, which Colombian officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/05\/06\/acab-terrorist-mobs-burn-police-alive-colombia\/\">tied<\/a> to FARC members.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the delisting of the FARC organization in tandem with the listing of two new alleged organizations: the&nbsp;\u201cFARC-EP\u201d (\u201cRevolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia \u2013 People\u2019s Army\u201d) and \u201cSecond Marquetal\u00eda.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/farc-ep.net\/\">FARC-EP<\/a> is the formal name of the FARC, while Second Marquetal\u00eda is the name of the current terrorist campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/09\/30\/colombia-fugitive-farc-senator-resurfaces-propaganda-demanding-presidents-resignation\/\">announced<\/a> by FARC leaders in 2020. The use of FARC-EP is an apparent attempt to differentiate between FARC political leaders running its legal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2017\/09\/01\/colombia-farc-terrorists-rebrand-revolutionary-alternative-common-force-political-party\/\">political party<\/a>, now known as \u201c<em>Comunes<\/em>\u201d (\u201ccommoners\u201d), and FARC leaders responsible for violent attacks. Colombian leaders have similarly attempted to distinguish between the political FARC and FARC \u201cdissidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the FARC has not given up on terrorism, but the Biden administration is trying to distinguish between the ex-FARC fighters that have demobilized and those that are still fighting, effectively called \u2018dissidents,\u2019\u201d Humire explained. \u201cThis term \u2018FARC-D\u2019 is what the [U.S. government] uses, and the Colombian government has a similar term in Spanish \u2014 \u2018GAO-R\u2019 \u2014 but it\u2019s important to keep in mind that the FARC still call themselves the FARC, without the other designators of \u2018dissidents\u2019 or \u2018<em>residuales<\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18998626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/FARCGettyImages-1164614390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18998626 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/FARCGettyImages-1164614390.jpg\" alt=\"This TV grab taken from YouTube and released on August 29, 2019, shows former senior commanders of the dissolved FARC rebel army group in Colombia, Ivan Marquez (C) and fugitive rebel colleague, Jesus Santrich (wearing sunglasses), on an undisclosed location announcing that they are taking up arms again along with other guerrillas who have distanced themselves from a peace accord signed with the government in 2016.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This TV grab taken from YouTube and released on August 29, 2019, shows former senior commanders of the dissolved FARC rebel army group in Colombia, Ivan Marquez (C) and fugitive rebel colleague, Jesus Santrich (wearing sunglasses), on an undisclosed location announcing that they are taking up arms again along with other guerrillas who have distanced themselves from a peace accord signed with the government in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Humire warned that the FARC \u201cname game\u201d could lead to loopholes in how the United States imposes sanctions and other punitive restrictions on the terrorists in question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Segunda Marquetalia is more of a coalition of various FARC dissident groups than a replacement of their name. So what happens if the Segundo Marquetalia changes the name of the coalition, then does the administration have to redesignate \u2026 again?\u201d the expert asked.<\/p>\n<p>The designations, he continued, further result in \u201clegitimizing the FARC, including all dissidents and their enablers in Venezuela, the Maduro regime. The administration might not see it this way \u2013 but the effect is the same \u2013 and this is evident in that all the Chavistas that were sanctioned for dealing with the FARC have to be delisted as well. Including those that are indicted for narco-terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Citing his own conversations with those on the front lines of the FARC assault in Colombia, Humire told Breitbart News that Colombian police and soldiers are facing \u201calmost daily attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military estimates that there are currently more than 2,700+ armed militants, 1,700+ residual forces, and another 1,000 or so in Venezuela,\u201d he explained. \u201cIf you add this up, this means that the FARC-D has about 5,400 dissident fighters and is rebuilding its armed militant structure in Colombia and Venezuela. This is about half the size of what the FARC was when they signed the peace deal in 2016, but they are building up steam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden admin FARC delisting will help them fill the ranks,\u201d Humire predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Other reports from Colombia also suggest a growing FARC presence and rising violence in the country. The Colombian government itself asserted this week that it believed that 100 Colombian municipalities had entered a \u201ccritical\u201d risk situation due to what the Colombian magazine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.semana.com\/nacion\/articulo\/informe-advierte-aumento-de-presencia-de-disidencias-de-las-farc-en-casi-200-municipios-del-pais\/202132\/\"><em>Semana<\/em><\/a> referred to as \u201cthe weakening of the authority of the state\u201d against the FARC in those areas. FARC \u201cdissidents\u201d increased their presence in at least 172 territories, government officials claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian newspaper&nbsp;<em>El Tiempo<\/em>&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eltiempo.com\/justicia\/paz-y-derechos-humanos\/la-paz-con-las-farc-aun-no-se-siente-en-las-regiones-634433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;last week a rise in violent assaults by the FARC nationwide and skyrocketing drug-related crime, apparently tied to the FARC, in at least 67 municipalities that had not previously documented a significant FARC presence. The newspaper named \u201cFARC dissidents, ELN [the National Liberation Army, another communist terrorist group],\u201d and \u201ccriminal gangs\u201d responsible for the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The reports do not align with the image that Secretary of State Blinken painted in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/11\/30\/biden-admin-strips-colombias-hezbollah-tied-farc-terrorists-of-terrorist-label\/\">announcement<\/a> of the delisting of the FARC, which asserted that the group \u201cno longer exists as a unified organization that engages in terrorism \u2026 or has the capacity to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian government expressed dismay at the new Biden policy this week, indicating that it similarly continues to consider the FARC a threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have preferred another decision,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eltiempo.com\/politica\/gobierno\/duque-se-pronuncia-sobre-salida-de-farc-de-lista-terrorista-de-ee-uu-635994\">lamented<\/a> President Iv\u00e1n Duque, \u201cbut knowing this, today we are concentrated on confronting the dissidents, confronting those groups and, as the United States said, those who have charges against them in their courts, the processes continue.\u201d<\/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=1638617523324000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0SjTOuxvnhi88QaEA0UF1m\">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=1638617523324000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mBVPpPW0K1yrAl90rK1E0\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations this week will help still-active guerrilla fighters \u201cfill the &#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-1081338","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\/1081338","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=1081338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081338\/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=1081338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}