The lttle-discussed left vs left result of Colombia's intractible civil war

Alice O'Keefe has written an interesting piece in the New Statesman about Colombia. She argues that the FARC are strangling political debate in Colombia by de-legitimising the non-FARC aligned leftwing political movement. It's an easy card for Uribe's rightwing election machine to play, dismissing the opposition as being aligned to the cocaine rebels. The Colombian people don't want to know anything about leftwing politics as long as they have these corrupt hostage-taking drug peddlers running their rural areas by force.

The NS have asked for permission to use my forum comments in the print version of the magazine. It's nice to see them paying attention to the stuff that people write there. I'll put the edited version of my comments up here once they are published.