Is Venezuela And Cuba Behind The Announcement That FARC Will Resume The War?

Prominent members of Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, including Ivan Marquez (center) say they are relaunching the group that demobilized after a 2016 peace deal Screen Grab Courtesy

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald: Colombia’s armed rebels are back, with Venezuela’s help. This could trigger regional conflict

Many see the announcement by a dissident group of Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) rebels that they will break a 3-year-old peace deal and resume armed struggle as a domestic problem. But, more likely, it will become a Colombia-Venezuela dispute — and perhaps escalate into a regional conflict.

Colombian President Ivan Duque already has pinned the blame on Venezuela. Hours after the FARC’s Aug. 29 announcement, he said that the leftist rebels are “a narco-terrorist criminal gang that counts on the safe harbor and support of (Venezuelan) dictator Nicolás Maduro.”

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WNU Editor: Venezuela is providing a safe haven for this dissident FARC group and for the ELN. If that is not helping and assisting the fermentation of this war, I then do not know what is. And yes .... this involvement by Venezuela and Cuba will escalate into a regional conflict. Both the Maduro regime in Venezuela and the Cuban government need to deflect the focus of their failed policies and economic mismanagement to something else.

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