The former second-in-command of the FARC rebels announced Wednesday the creation of a political movement, a week after announcing he was taking up arms once more.
In a video posted on YouTube, Ivan Marquez, the Marxist group's chief negotiator for the 2016 peace agreement, announced the birth of a group that he said would work "clandestinely."
"The members of the new movement will have a mission in the social sector where they live, work, or study, without it being public knowledge of their political affiliation," he said.
The announcement of the FARC-EP's reestablishment was preceded by this call to revive the Bolivarian Movement for a New Colombia, a vehicle to unite the popular movements, first proposed by Comandante Alfonso Cano in 2000. The Spanish version was published by ResumenLatinoAmericano on Aug. 6, 2019.
The millions of Colombians who believed in that promise of peace, which would benefit the vast majority of our people, excluded by the State and stricken by the conflict, are now witnessing a kind of return to the past. ... Foreign and domestic policy continue to be directed from Washington. The new president, like his predecessors, has handed over sovereignty to imperial geopolitical interests and the greed of large corporations. However, as a people we do not renounce our right to a sovereign homeland, to live in peace with social justice and to create alternatives to realize this precious asset for all Colombians.
But the people cannot remain dispersed. We are in arrears of re-editing and re-creating spaces that really embrace the large majorities that believed in the agreement and that yearn for peace. Two hundred years after the victory in Boyacá, it is necessary to reclaim the patriotic ideology of “Our America” to build the future and utopia, summoning the entire social and political movement under historical and current Bolivarian slogans such as unity, sovereignty and peace for a New Colombia. The flags remain valid because the problems, far from being resolved, have increased.
Letter of Invitation for the Bolivarian Movement for a New Colombia
We fully understand the transformative power of the current historical moment. We are aware that conditions have developed that put before us two paths: Either we assist in the recomposition of the prevailing regime in response to the crisis maturing at all levels, which will consolidate the current class power and deepen its neoliberal policies even more; or we take the path of a constituent process capable of producing the social force for truly transformative change. That’s the challenge we face today.
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