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According to Marco Rubio, removing the FARC from the list of terrorist organizations is risky
The US State Department announced to remove the FARC from the list of terrorist organizations, to which Senator Rubio completely refuses.
The President of the United States, Jon Biden, informed the congress about his initiative to remove the Colombian guerrilla from the black list of terrorists that the country has, to which Senator Marco Rubio pointed out that this decision would put the security interests of the country at risk. USA and Colombia.
Importantly, Senator Rubio is the highest ranking member of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, Civil Security, Transnational Crime, Global Women's Issues, and Human Rights.
For this reason, he urged Congress to hold hearings to examine well what that election really means for the stability of the hemisphere, and the security interests of Colombia and, above all, the United States.
State Department Statements
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Peace Agreement, which led to the disarmament and extinction of the then guerrilla, which is considered the oldest in America, the US president generated this possible decision.
To which the State Department spokesman, Ned Price, communicated through a press conference that: "The peace process and the signing of its agreement 5 years ago is something that represented a fundamental turning point, which would prolong the Colombian conflict ".
Likewise, Price did not corroborate whether Biden had already decided to definitively remove the FARC from the list, and even said that the political position towards the guerrilla group was being studied well, but without giving many details.
Senator's point of view
With everything activated by President Biden, Senator Marco Rubio categorically rejected the fortuitous intention of the State Department, and made a political statement recalling the decades of criminal action by the old subversive group.
He also noted that Colombia has gone through much suffering and pain from the heinous terrorist attacks led by the FARC.
