Chapter 527

The Guantanamo incident ended the United States' invincible situation in the Caribbean. In this conflict, Castro, the supreme leader of Cuba, gained the most. When the incident happened, he keenly grasped this rare opportunity and drove the Americans out of the territory of Cuba. He has proved that he is still the most determined revolutionary in the Caribbean and Latin America. The Guantanamo incident made Castro the banner of the revolutionary movement in the Caribbean. The left-wing armed groups in Colombia, who participated in the Guantanamo operation, lost a lot of people in this operation, but gained the hearts of millions of poor people in Colombia.

After 1986, the far left armed groups in Colombia began to launch a massive attack on the Colombian government forces and the right-wing military organizations. Those poor farmers in Colombia have also joined the movement. The m-19 movement, which won great fame in Colombia because of the Guantanamo incident, the National Liberation Army of Colombia, the people's Liberation Army of Colombia and the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia set up the United revolutionary front. They made use of the remuneration paid by seryosa to recruit and sell troops on a large scale to prepare for war. In this revolutionary tide, the Colombian government army began to retreat. It had to give up the vast rural areas in Western Colombia and be trapped in the big cities.

Colombia's democratically elected president, Pele SARIO bertankur quartas, has felt the unprecedented pressure. Quartas began to review a series of policies he had made. He felt that he trusted his ally 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, a law major, hopes that Colombia can get rid of the chaos and disorder over the years. Therefore, quartas has been committed to building and formulating the legal environment in Colombia, and putting an end to corruption and centralization. Unfortunately, quartas was not born at the right time. During his term of office, the whole capitalist society was in crisis. Under his administration, Colombia's annual economic growth rate was only 0.9%, industrial production declined, and agricultural production stagnated. Although quartas has also adopted reforms similar to those in Pinochet, Chile, opening up the Colombian market to foreign investors, and carrying out market-oriented reforms on state-owned companies and public undertakings, it is a pity that these experiences, which are considered as successful experiences, are not compatible with the soil in Colombia, and can only make the situation worse.

In order to get the support of the United States, quartas had to intensify the crackdown on domestic drug trafficking groups. However, quartas was not born in poverty. He could not understand that Coca was almost the only cash crop for the poor farmers in Colombia. He didn't understand that the unemployed workers in Colombia couldn't find any jobs to make a living except drug trafficking. The anti drug campaign of quartas and the Americans is to drive these poor people to a dead end.

Guantanamo incident completely let quartas see that the Americans are not invincible. The growing revolutionary movement in China also began to force quartas to re-examine his domestic policy. Quartas' term of office will end in August this year. If he doesn't want to be ousted early and nailed to the stigma of Colombia's history forever, he has to do something to save the situation.

Quartas gathered several important cabinet ministers to discuss countermeasures for several days. Most of his cabinet were intellectuals, and only the defense minister was a military officer. As a result, only the defense minister made a slightly feasible proposal, which is to divide the cooperation between the Colombian drug trafficking group and the left-wing guerrillas.

"Mr. President, in my opinion, the Medellin and the Kali groups are not the same people as the guerrillas who support the war with drugs. What are the guerrillas against? They are against rich people like Escobar. But what we have been taking is to reach a settlement with the left-wing guerrillas and to wipe out drug trafficking organizations like the Medellin group! But in the eyes of the guerrillas, our government represents the interests of the rich like Escobar! And the Neo liberal economic strategy you are pursuing, President, protects the interests of these big capitalists! "

The reason why the defense minister is willing to publicly criticize President quartas' policy at such a meeting is mainly because the term of office of this government is about to expire, and no matter who is elected president, he will be the defense minister. Besides, quartas is not a strong man. He is good at adopting other people's opinions, which is not only quartas's advantages but also his disadvantages. To put it mildly, this kind of behavior of quartas is called accepting remonstrance, but to put it mildly is indecisive. Defense Minister Juan Manuel has long seen through the president's character.

"Juan, do you have any good suggestions? Let's hear it Quartas and the people in the conference room looked at Defense Minister Juan Manuel. They wanted to know what the soldier had in mind.

"Mr. President, do you remember that last year escoval sent representatives to communicate with us, hoping to offer us more than 10 billion US dollars to help us repay our foreign debts in exchange for the president's proposal to grant amnesty to the leadership of the Medellin group?" The Secretary of defense suddenly asked.

"Yes, but it's impossible for us to agree to such a thing. If we really accept it, then Colombia will lose its reputation!" After hearing Juan Manuel's remarks, quartas doubted whether he had taken advantage of the drug dealer and came here to act as a lobbyist for Escobar. So the tone of quartas is extremely bad.

"No, Mr. President, I think you misunderstood me! The reason why I mention this is to show you that, compared with those far left guerrilla forces, the Medellin group in escoval is just like a dog waiting at our door and expecting us to throw a bone out! Instead of trying to crack down on 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 need to make clear is that as long as escoval leaves these guerrillas, there will be no way for them to sell their cocaine to the United States, and their financial resources will be cut off! "