The Next Wave of Immigration
by Jeff Davis
It is fashionable nowadays to announce that Communism is dead everywhere outside the university campus. This is not true, of course–North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Cuba spring to mind–and we tend to forget that there are a number of very active and very murderous Marxist insurgencies operating around the world in places like Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal and much of South America.
A recent news article reports “The entire municipal council of a town in rural Colombia has resigned and fled to a nearby city, fearing for their lives amid a spate of political killings. All nine council members in the remote, guerrilla-engulfed town of Villavieja stepped down on Tuesday and moved to the city of Neiva, capital of Huila province. ‘I’m afraid, very afraid,’ Council President Edgar Almanza said… 16 council members in three towns have been killed in the region by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the nation’s largest rebel group. The most brutal attack – in the town of Rivera, 40 miles from Villavieja – saw rebels disguised as police open fire in a hotel where the city council was meeting on Feb. 27, killing 9 members.” (more…)