[kpeavey]

ARGH!!

My plan for dominating the world through Mona Vie and Amway are dashed. I'd have made it if it wasn't for you rotten kids...

[Chuckmak]

ARGH!!

My plan for dominating the world through Mona Vie and Amway are dashed. I'd have made it if it wasn't for you rotten kids...

ROOBY ROOBY ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Tanada]

http://www.herald.co.zw/colombias-farc- ... cal-party/

Colombia's leftist FARC rebel group has introduced its political party at a conference that began on Sunday, a major step in its transition into a civilian organisation after more than 50 years of war and its first chance to announce policy to sceptical voters.
Key points:

The new party still has no name but some are seeking to preserve the FARC title
FARC rhetoric is seen as dated, but leftist reforms may get traction with rural voters
Legislative and presidential elections are set to take place in 2018

The six-day meeting in Bogota of FARC members, who have handed in more than 8,000 weapons to the United Nations during their demobilisation, is expected to conclude on Friday with a platform that the party, still officially un-named, will campaign on in elections next year.

"From this event on, we will transform into a new, exclusively political group that will carry out its activity by legal means," FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, who is known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, told hundreds of attendees at the event centre in Bogota.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-28/a ... ty/8847328

[Ibon]

http://www.herald.co.zw/colombias-farc-rebels-to-unveil-political-party/

Colombia's leftist FARC rebel group has introduced its political party at a conference that began on Sunday, a major step in its transition into a civilian organisation after more than 50 years of war and its first chance to announce policy to sceptical voters.
Key points:

The new party still has no name but some are seeking to preserve the FARC title
FARC rhetoric is seen as dated, but leftist reforms may get traction with rural voters
Legislative and presidential elections are set to take place in 2018

The six-day meeting in Bogota of FARC members, who have handed in more than 8,000 weapons to the United Nations during their demobilisation, is expected to conclude on Friday with a platform that the party, still officially un-named, will campaign on in elections next year.

"From this event on, we will transform into a new, exclusively political group that will carry out its activity by legal means," FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, who is known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, told hundreds of attendees at the event centre in Bogota.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-28/a ... ty/8847328

I did business in Bogota, Cali and Medellin back in the 90's when civil war conditions, hijacking, death squads and terror was normalized in Colombian society. After 20 years of not visiting the country my wife and I recently visited Colombia twice for our coffee business here in Panama, purchasing processing equipment and combining this with a holiday. The country has been transformed, the society more open and friendly, an upbeat optimism on the streets.

[Newfie]

My DIL is Columbian. From her accounts where she grew up she is pretty isolated from the violence. She sees it as a pretty normal place to live.