Politicians and leaders of the Hispanic community in South Florida criticized the decision of the US Government to remove the FARC from the list of terrorist groups.
Along these lines, they urged US President Joe Biden to desist from the idea, as Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott did this week.
Colombian-American state congressman David Borrero said this Friday that it is a decision that does not represent “70% of Colombians,” during a press conference organized by the Republican National Committee in Florida, in which community leaders from Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, Swissinfo reported .
“It is a failure for hundreds of thousands of FARC victims,” said Borrero, who represents areas of South Florida with large Colombian populations, such as Kendall and Doral.
He criticized that this measure will allow the FARC to open many banks in the US and even receive government aid and called on his colleagues in the Florida Congress to urge President Biden not to remove the FARC from the black list.
Last Wednesday, Republican Senators Rubio and Scott sent a letter to President Biden in which they regretted the decision to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from the Department of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list. State.
“This is a step back for the stability and security of Colombia and will only provide these terrorists and their political sympathizers with improved capacity, financial resources and perceived international legitimacy to destabilize our closest ally in the region,” they say in the letter.
South Florida Democratic politicians, such as Colombian-born Congressional Sen. Anette Taddeo, have also rejected the idea.
“When I was 17 years old, I was forced to flee Colombia, the only country I knew, because the Marxist terrorist organization FARC, a group of militias, kidnapped my father, who was an American fighter pilot from the Second World War. World Cup ”, he pointed out on his Twitter account.
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The parliamentarian warned that this measure will allow the FARC to open bank accounts in the United States and even receive government aid. He also called on his colleagues in the Florida Congress to urge President Biden not to remove the FARC from the black list.
Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, both Republican senators, sent a letter to President Biden on Wednesday lamenting the decision .
“This is a step backwards for the stability and security of Colombia” they pointed out.
And they added about the measure: “It will only provide these terrorists and their political sympathizers with improved capacity, financial resources and perceived international legitimacy to destabilize our closest ally in the region.”
