FARC announced that Joaquin Gomez is the successor of Raul Reyes

According to a release from the guerrillas, Joaquin Gomez, the current commander of the so-called South Block, enter as a full member of the Secretariat of the Central General Staff of the group. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced on Tuesday that after the assassination of the number two and spokesman of the guerrilla movement, Raul Reyes, the guerrillas Joaquin Gomez, the current commander of the so-called South Block, enter as a full member of the Secretariat of the Central General Staff insurgent group. "The FARC reported that Joaquin Gomez credited as a full member of the Secretariat of the Central General Staff of this organization," says the rebel group in a statement released Tuesday. " Similarly, the guerrilla group also confirmed, officially, the death of Reyes, who is described as a "comprehensive and revolutionary model, which gave his entire life to the cause of the exploited, national liberation and who dreamed Patria Grande ( Simon) Bolivar. " "We informed the Colombian people and international opinion, which has killed the commander Raul Reyes," says the text of six points. ""The commander, fell fulfilling the mission of realizing through President Chavez (Venezuela), an interview with the president (of France Nicolas) Sarkozy, where progress in finding solutions to the situation of Ingrid Betancourt and the objective of humanitarian exchange , "he adds. " The FARC reiterated that "the cause of peace based on social justice by which the commander Raul Reyes gave his life, still waving at the top of the mountains of Colombia, the Platform Bolivarian, the Strategic Plan for the FARC and the unshakable determination to fight the guerrillas and the people throughout the country. " However, warn that the "treachery of the attack" in the death of Reyes and "evil and cynicism liar of Alvaro Uribe to distort the circumstances of the death of guerrilla leader," not only dangerously tensionan relations with this government the sister republics, but beat of the potential seriousness of Humanitarian Exchange and overturned the political solution to the conflict with the regime and pro-Yankee paramilitarized ". The guerrilla group insisted, for his part, clearing Meadow and the municipalities of Florida, in the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca, and called for "Presidents Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Sarkozy, Rafael Correa, Daniel Ortega, Cristina Fernandez, Evo Morales and all Governments friends of peace to the families of the prisoners and the overwhelming majority that supported the Humanitarian Exchange, "to continue" fighting "with the sole condition that had to realize the exchange of hostages for imprisoned guerrillas.
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