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Article: Fighting Colombia's guerrillas; Colombia and the United States.(American aid to Colombia)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2002
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America should offer its weapons, but not its soldiers, to shore up democracy in Colombia
IT IS a world away from Afghanistan. But this week American officials were preparing to step up action against three other groups on their list of "international terrorist organisations"--in Colombia. Done the right way, this could help eventually to bring peace and to strengthen democracy in Latin America's third most populous country. But there are many dangers, not least that of conflating Latin American guerrillas, however nasty, with Islamic terrorists.
Originally Marxist, the struggle of Colombia's two guerrilla groups, the FARC and the ELN, has become one of ...