Marulanda, a rational voice in the middle of wild wolves
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ll sectors of Colombian society attended the public peace audiences in El CaguĂĄn: peasants, workers, employees, students, trade unionists, feminists, indigenous people, Afro-Colombian organizations, indigenous communities, etc. Even businessmen. All of them presented their ideas about the kind of country of which they dreamed. The guerrilla listened to them and dialogued with everyone. Government pressure You and the paramilitaries have to kill anyone who dares to criticize me
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Marulanda made two important proposals: a) a plan for the substitution of illegal crops without repression, with a pilot project in Cartagena del Chairå; and b) a prisoner-of-war exchange and humanitarian interchange. None of the two proposals were considered. The Colombian bourgeoisie, apart from being decadent, is deaf. They don’t want to hear the popular demands. They only want to defeat the guerrilla and maintain the socio-economic, capitalist and dependent structures of Colombia.
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