By: Hollman Lozano
While the central government, the media and analysts are concerned that the Ninth Conference the FARC was carried out with the physical presence of members of the general staff somewhere in Colombia, - which would imply a failure in the years of Democratic Security strategy implemented by Uribe government will, or was carried out through the Internet, there is a fact of fundamental importance for the country's political future has been overlooked, and there seems to be a shift in the intentions and political dynamics-armed guerrilla movement.
The Conferences of the FARC, are the highest decision-making that brings together the full Staff, the Secretariat, the leaders of the blocks, the fronts and mobile units to make decisions binding by the full spectrum of movement in social and economic policy. That is, is the body that determines the medium and long term course that will keep the insurgent organization.
The last of the conferences of the FARC, held in 1993, occurs in a political-military private good, which leads to a valuation of the military over the political. At that time, the FARC came to make one of the most daring attempts to participate openly in Colombian politics. Had created, under the direction of the commander Jacobo Arenas, the Patriotic Union political movement, whose members, to the misfortune of the country, were killed by blood and fire throughout the national territory. So that would become the Eighth Conference, as a result of the extermination of the Patriotic Union, for more emphasis on the military over the political, as most tables and popular support and peasant insurgent movement had built up over years and years of political work, were killed in a short period of time by paramilitary groups or "servants of the state." But the Ninth Conference
not seem to have been carried out by some strange desire to strengthen the current dynamics of the armed organization, but rather, by what is perceived by some members as the need to redirect, since even the highest levels of the FARC, have felt the consequences of some sort of indifference and abuse against civilians in different parts of the country who once were his political and military outposts.
Therefore, the fact that the conference according to various sources has been carried out again on the political emphasis, a change in the orientation of the guerrilla organization that can eventually create the conditions for a serious peace negotiation, with a government that is willing to assume the political cost of making changes to the economic and power structure that involves closing the chapter armed struggle in Colombia.
hollman.lozano @ yahoo.ca
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