FARC Starts Colombia Talks With Attack on Mining ‘Demons’
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, opened peace talks in Oslo by denouncing oil and mining companies that it says are looting the Andean nation’s wealth, and said the country needs a new national army without U.S. influence.
A FARC commander, known by his alias Ivan Marquez, named billionaires Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo and Alejandro Santo Domingo as examples of the country’s super rich he says are “sinking their claws” into Colombia’s oil, gold and coltan resources. Marquez, one of the group’s seven-member ruling council, spoke at a news conference outside Oslo today.