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farc women and children

this is a retort to a previous post, and realy this should be high on the agender here regards to serious conversations. Anyone with half a brain that realy has an interest in colombia be it the past, now, or more importantly the future knows this beautiful country is so complicated its far beyond the realms of nonsense internet banter to solve the intertwined chaos that realy is locombia. If you work the land as your predecessors have that is your life and education, the extended family is the family here. When a government retracts its promise to reimburse you for all your back breaking labour yielding the crops that feed your extended family like coffee and says BURN it all and the coca plants we know you cultivate inbetween, when your staring at those empty fields and Uribe hasnt kept his half of the bargain so your without, and if your lucky agent orange hasnt ruined your once fertile land, ¿WHAT would you do? grow coca plants again to feed your loved ones, regardless of where the finance came from , self preservation !!

By la campiña on Mar 4, 2008, 18:42 in Friendly Talkzone.

Medellin Traveler says on Mar 4, 2008, 18:51:

If you want your whole family to die of starvation, you do nothing.

But, if you love your family, you plant coca.

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tejasmarcos says on Mar 4, 2008, 19:03:

no offense, la campina - what does this have to do with farc women and children? are you saying that farc families are the campisinos planting all/some of the coca plants?

trying to walk a straight line on sour mash and cheap wine...

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chrispej says on Mar 4, 2008, 19:35:

So I guess the people in Venezuela who are experiencing food shortages right now should start growing coca too?

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la campiña says on Mar 4, 2008, 19:42:

thanks for not tearing me apart ha, but yea if your farm is now unable to sustain your family what do your children do when offered money for what on the surface seems an adventure however nasty the altenative is. I can see clearly both sides but when your not privelidged with education and money ( which is normal to us) what is your choice, and realy campasinos in remote rural areas dont care about the Cali estetics the Bogota clothes etc etc, its another life hand to mouth survival, another world i for one have only read about in books and have encountered because of freinds that have shown me this other ( however) realworld of colombia that is ignored by the ever increasing westernization of colombia

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la campiña says on Mar 4, 2008, 21:17:

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goin_south says on Mar 4, 2008, 22:19:

They don't grow coca, in Venezuela?
Eye don no.
but.. it never gets the press, but I jus imagine they do...

'what does it mean, when one of you (colombians) tell another: YOU WERE NOT/ARE NOT. 'COLOMBIAN ENOUGH'?? jejeje..a mixture, I think, of stupidity mixed with a false sense of arrogance.. How 'colombian' do you have to be? to be 'colombian enough

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tomtom33 says on Mar 5, 2008, 02:10:

And if you have no land on which to plant, you just take someone else's land. With these arguments you can justify prostitution, kidnapping, and murder as well.

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lampltr says on Mar 5, 2008, 02:20:

la campiña, you are on a roll...absolutley correct. Maybe some people need to live in a Strat. 1 (Away from any major city) for awhile to better understand. One has to do what ever one can to survive whether legal or not especially when conditions are common as you stated. Just so much easier for the "wealthy" to sit behind their plush offices to make decisions for the whole not having a clue what the average go through on a day to day basis! What pisses me off is the International community that desires to interject in Colombia's affairs from a distance, but do nothing physically to change total local conditions as a whole....Tomtom that is not what LC is saying...

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Rikito says on Mar 5, 2008, 06:45:

Geeze...someone in here needs to read a book.

It is not life that matters, but the journey.

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la campiña says on Mar 16, 2008, 00:33:

read them , al contrario someone here needs to live in colombia see the opulence and arrogance

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goin_south says on Mar 17, 2008, 20:45:

no 1 reads more than _Campiña;
he is the Evelyn Woods of Cali.

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la campiña says on Mar 18, 2008, 02:28:

south, you rok, reading is my aeroplane, o airplane

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goin_south says on Mar 18, 2008, 22:33:

Now it is THERE FOR ALL TO SEE, READ, AND UNDERSTAND:

.................If reading is his Aeroplane,....it's just that sometimes, HE'S OVERBOOKED..
jajjaj!!!!

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la campiña says on Apr 11, 2008, 21:24:

I choose my books carefuly like my friends

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MaFe says on Apr 11, 2008, 21:28:

I believe there are many, many poor people in colombia- they don't choose to grow coca,
they don't go and kill to get food on the table, they don't steal to get food on the table.

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "-Aristotle

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la campiña says on Apr 16, 2008, 00:19:

given a choice they would

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