The way drug production and trafficking works today (at least for cocaine) is extremely exploitative of the peasantry and the rural working class. I don't think you can reform the supply chain to make it communist, when the global North depends on cheap drugs procured violently.
ELN is closer to Maoism, iirc. FARC was 100% MLs, though.
After the leaders of FARC (mostly) gave up on armed struggle and signed a peace treaty with the Colombian government, some holdovers kept their weapons and continued to control rural areas of the country, but not as FARC, just local bands with limited geographic reach and little to no ideological consistency.
The ELN are more Maoist than ML, but their ideology has evolved on its own, so it's hard to pin down. They are currently in talks with the Colombian government to get a peace treaty, like FARC. The largest difference in how they're organized from FARC is that there isn't a strong central authority that calls the shots, so some parts of it have developed their own culture, while still being part of ELN.
ELN has a history of successfully stealing weapons and ammo from the Colombian military, and the Colombian military has a long history of collaboration and training by Israeli agents, so it's likely they have a bunch of Galils around.
This incident looks like the result of a turf dispute between two local groups, but nothing like the large scale conflicts between guerrillas in the 90s/2000s.
That is fucking sick comrade. Radical Agroecology hasta la victoria, siempre.
As a food and agriculture scholar, I will always love to see people resisting together with food.
BTW, check out if there's any Slow Food activity near you. They're very lib, but they're also well established in the US, and might have some resources or direction, too.
Putin said that it hit s military installation. Whether that is true or not, it's really hard to know. No side gains anything from being truthful.
Engineering dookies celestially.
Technical name for shitting through a sunroof. (I'm joking)
No problem. I thought i was misunderstanding something, myself.
I didn't understand that at all. Global south countries are already indebted in USD, to the US or to western lenders, and struggle to get the money to finance infrastructure projects and other programs because of that debt.
That's where China comes in with huge USD reserves, lends those countries the USD they need to build infrastructure, and offer the know-how through Chinese companies on how to build it. Then the terms of repayment don't have to be "pay us in USD", like it would be with any other lender, but it can be in yuan or other kinds of agreements, like payment in natural resources at a fixed rate.
I have my reserves on what the shape of these repayment plans might be, and what that means for the marginalized peoples of global South countries that enter the B&RI, but it is a move away from western hegemony, that's for sure.
Environmental storytelling I guess?
Also nukes, I'd imagine.
Good thing Ukraine is a liberal democracy where the will of the people will be heard.
I think it's an act. Italian society is so mysogynistic that she knows people will constantly underestimate her if she plays the ditzy part. But when it's time to blame victims of SA for their experience or to say the most horrid shit about migrants, she's suddenly very coldly competent.