Soviet Godfather

Vol 5 Chapter 72: Revolutionary fire

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The Guantanamo incident put an end to the indomitable situation of the United States in the Caribbean. In this conflict, Cuba’s supreme leader, Castro, had the greatest gain. He keenly grasped this when the incident happened. A rare opportunity to drive the Americans out of Cuban territory in one fell swoop. Proved that he is still the most determined revolutionary in the Caribbean and Latin America. The Guantanamo incident made Castro once again become the banner of the revolutionary movement in the Caribbean. And the Colombian left-wing armed groups that participated in the Guantanamo operation, although they lost a lot of people in this operation, they have gained the hearts of thousands of poor people in Colombia.

When time entered in 1986, the ultra-left armed organizations in Colombia began to launch a massive offensive against the Colombian government forces and right-wing military organizations. And the poor farmers in Colombia have also risen in succession and joined the movement. The M-19 (April 19th Movement), the Colombian National Liberation Army, the Colombian People’s Liberation Army, and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces established the United Revolutionary Front, which won a huge reputation in Colombia because of the Guantanamo incident. The recruitment and sale of troops, arms expansion and war preparations. In this revolutionary wave, the Colombian government forces began to retreat steadily, and they had to abandon the vast rural areas of western Colombia and be trapped in large cities.

Colombia's elected President Belisario Betancur Quartas has truly felt the unprecedented pressure. Quartas began to review a series of policies he had made. He felt that he trusted the United States too much and ignored the objective conditions in Colombia.

Objectively speaking, Quartas is not a bad president. On the contrary, he has a high reputation among intellectuals. After taking office, Quartas, who is a legal professional, hopes that Colombia can get rid of the chaos and disorder for many years. Therefore, Quartas has been committed to building and enacting Colombia’s legal environment to prevent corruption and centralization of power. corrosion. It is a pity that Quartas was born at an untimely time. During his tenure, the entire capitalist society was in crisis. Colombia's annual economic growth rate under his administration was only 0.9%, industrial production declined, and agricultural production stagnated. Although Quartas has also adopted reforms similar to those of Chile’s Pinochet, opening up the Colombian market to foreign investors and conducting market-oriented reforms to state-owned companies and public enterprises, it is a pity that these are considered successful experiences. The unacceptable conditions on the land of Colombia can only make the situation worse.

In order to gain support from the United States, Quartas had to intensify its crackdown on domestic drug cartels. However, Quartas was not a poor man after all. He could not understand that coca was almost the only cash crop that allowed everyone to live for poor farmers in Colombia. The unemployed Colombian workers he didn't understand couldn't find a job to make a living apart from drug trafficking. The anti-drug movement of Quartas and the Americans is simply to push these poor people to death.

The Guantanamo incident completely made Quartas see that the Americans are not invincible. The intensified domestic revolutionary movement has also begun to force Quartas to re-examine his domestic policies. Quartas' term will end in August of this year. If he doesn't want to be ousted early and forever nailed to the pillar of shame in Colombian history, he must do something to restore the situation.

Quartas gathered several important cabinet ministers of his own to discuss countermeasures for several days. Most of Quartas’ cabinets are from intellectual background, and only the Minister of Defense is from a military background. As a result, among these people, only the Minister of Defense made a slightly feasible proposal. His proposal was to divide the cooperative relationship between the Colombian drug cartel and the Colombian left-wing guerrillas.

The Minister of Defense said to Quartas: "Mr. President, it seems to me that the Medellin Group and the Cali Group are not the same as the guerrillas fighting with drugs. What is the opposition of the guerrillas? It is a wealthy man like Escobar. But what we have always adopted is to reach a reconciliation with the left-wing guerrillas and eliminate drug trafficking organizations like the Medellin Group! But in the eyes of the guerrillas, our government representatives It is the interests of wealthy people like Escobar! And the neoliberal economic strategy that you promote, President, protects the interests of these big capitalists!"

The reason why the Secretary of Defense is willing to publicly criticize President Quartas’ policies at such a meeting is mainly because the term of the current government is about to expire. No matter who is elected as the president, he will be the defense minister. Besides, Quartas is not a strong person. He is good at adopting other people's opinions. This is not only Quartas's advantage, but also his shortcomings. The behavior of Quartas to sound a bit better is called admonition ruling, and to sound a bit better is indecision. The Minister of Defense Juan Manuel has long understood what kind of character this president is.

"Juan, do you have any good suggestions? Come and listen!" Quartas and everyone in the conference room looked at the Minister of Defense Juan Manuel~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They wanted to know. What does this soldier have any ideas?

"Mr. President, do you remember that Escobar sent a representative to communicate with us last year, hoping to use more than 10 billion US dollars to help us repay our foreign debts as a condition in exchange for the President’s proposal to pardon the leadership of the Medellin Group? ?" The Secretary of Defense suddenly asked everyone.

"Remember, but it's impossible for us to agree to this kind of thing. If we really accept it, then Colombia will lose its reputation!" Quartas heard Juan Manuel's remarks and already doubted it. Did he take advantage of the drug dealer and come here to be a lobbyist for Escobar? So Quartas's tone is extremely unkind.

"No, Mr. President, I think you have misunderstood me! The reason why I mentioned this is to explain to you that compared with those far-left guerrillas, the Medellin group in Escobar is just like It’s a dog waiting at our door and wanting us to throw a bone out! Instead of working hard to rectify the guerrillas who want to overthrow the government, we should first stabilize Escobar and let him withdraw from the alliance with the guerrillas. One thing we have to figure out is that as long as Escobar leaves these guerrillas, the cocaine produced by the guerrillas cannot be sold to the United States, and their financial resources will be cut off!"

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