"Colombian Rebels Expanding Activities"

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-colombia-rebels-abroad,0,4522406.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

By JUAN PABLO TORO
Associated Press Writer

May 17, 2005, 2:19 PM EDT


BOGOTA, Colombia -- Speedboats laden with tons of rebel-produced cocaine slip through Caribbean waters to the palm-fringed coasts of Central America, and return to Colombia stuffed with weapons for the guerrillas. Police investigate high-profile kidnappings in Venezuela and Paraguay, and find the fingerprints of Colombian rebels all over them.

From the jungles of Central America to South America's southern cone, Colombia's main rebel group has been expanding its criminal activities, according to law enforcement officials and political leaders across the continent.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, began battling for the rights of peasants in Colombia in 1964. But today, officials say, it looks increasingly like a powerful criminal gang, kidnapping Colombians rich and poor for ransom, carrying out extortion rackets, and supplying the drugs that enable gangs abroad to get rich.

Now, they say, the FARC has gone international, described by President Bush in a recent interview with a Russian newspaper as "a very destabilizing force in South America."...



"We" need to terrorize,torture and kill many more people there,I guess.