FARC Commies Loves Free Markets

FARC, the communist rebels living high in the mountains of Colombia and Ecuador really do seem to love free markets – when they’re the beneficiary.

In the 80′s, FARC swayed a little capitalist when they got involved in the drug trade. They the proceeds to finance their expansion. Ever since, FARC has been battling the U.S.-supported capitalist government.

With Colombia’s surgical strike on a FARC camp in Ecuador, killing FARC second-in-command Paul Reyes, the government has won a major victory against the communist guerrillas. After the strike, Colombian commandos found a laptop with a bunch of interesting FARC data on it. Among the data was evidence that FARC operatives were thinking about buying 50 kilograms of uranium. Colombian President Manuel Uribe points to this as proof that FARC was planning to build and detonate a dirty bomb. However, the context of the data indicates that FARC was only to be an intermediary, selling the uranium at a profit on the open market.

This no-risk gain is a very capitalist transaction – arbitrage.

FARC needs to come out of the closet. If they’re so confused about their own econo-political identity, they might follow the signs toward the truth found in their own very capitalist actions. FARC is just a front for drug commerce. They use their opposition political stance only as a marketing tactic to recruit young and impressionable youth to be their foot-soldiers, so that they themselves aren’t at risk. Pitiful.

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