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.”
FARC is one of the oldest Marxist insurgencies in South America, going back to the 1970s. They almost went extinct in the mid-1990s, but the Communist movement received a new lease on life when the Colombian government, acting under pressure from the United States, disbanded so-called “right wing death squads” which suppressed the Communists. The Medellin and Calle drug cartels wanted to keep their narcotics trafficking safe and free from depredations by leftist gunmen who wanted to cut themselves in on a piece of the action. The death squads tracked down and exterminated most of the Communist rebels. But like the alligators who were almost wiped out in Florida, relief from the hunters has brought back a resurgence.
Several recent bombings have been blamed on the Reds although in Latin America these things are often so murky it’s impossible to figure out what’s really going on. Since the Medellin and Calle cartels were forced to reorganize and go underground, there has been a lot of cowboy action in the drug trade with everyone getting a piece of the action–Communists, leftists, rightists, government officials, cops, peasant entrepreneurs and outsiders. Everyone is scrambling for Colombian narcodollars.
And just think–our wonderful lords and masters in Washington DC and the multi-national corporations just can’t wait to bring all this lovely diversity right here, to America! Once we finally get rid of those “racist” immigration laws, you can have a Colombian drug lord as your neighbor down the street, a Communist terrorist living next door, and a Villavieja city councilman hiding from both in your basement!