Colombia’s left must reorganize, unite: Patriotic Union president

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia’s left must reorganize, unite: Patriotic Union president
Jun 27, 2014 posted by Nicolas Bedoya

Former Colombian vice-presidential candidate Aida Avella announced that her left-wing Patriotic Union Party must reorganize and unite in order to achieve its goals. The long time UP member, who assumed the presidency of her party on Thursday, told Colombia Reports that she finds her party in a state of restructuring, and that Colombia’s left, in general, is very fractured.

“There is a necessity to unite to be able to achieve our goals,” Avella said, adding that “our essence is to look for unity of the left.”

Avella said her focus as party president will be “first to continue with the reorganization of the party at a national level. Second, look to contribute to the Broad Front for peace and democracy, that is made up of Colombia’s most progressive sectors. Third, look into how we are going to approach the 2015 regional and local elections united with Colombia’s left and local community movements.”

The Patriotic Union Party was formed as the political arm of Colombia’s largest rebel group, FARC; however, once the party proved to be politically successful in the 1980s, a systematic extermination of its members was carried-out in a bloody campaign of assassinations.

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http://colombiareports.co/colombias-left-must-unite-patriotic-union-president/

[msongs]

1. the same could be said of the USA nt

[Louisiana1976]

2. She has a good point--if Colombia's left were united they probably would have done

better in the recent election.

[Judi Lynn]

3. It would really dampen the voting drive of moral Colombians when they realize 4,000 to 6,000

of their fellow progressive citizens have been terrorized, some tortured then murdered for their political beliefs.

That would wear down the people in their hopes to build a better world for themselves, when they were driven to try to survive from day to day to escape the same evil events ending their lives.

It takes a very strong person to even be public about his/her political beliefs in a country like Colombia! It has been unsupportive to the extreme of those who don't believe in fascism.