Luis Fajardo

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The government has repeatedly tried to have political conversations with these dissident FARC groups.

The FARC, the main body of the Colombian rebels, signed a peace treaty with the Colombian government nearly 10 years ago, but there's many so-called dissidents.

that moved apart from this peace process, and they restarted their guerrilla activities, their subversive activities.

Critics of the government say that these FARC dissidents are little more than crime groups.

There's strong documentation of their involvement in drug trafficking, and the opposition is saying that they should not continue these attempts at political dialogue with them, that what is

needed a strong hand against them.

As you know, Colombia is about to hold elections and many conservative candidates are precisely calling for this measure.

Not at all.

Many people say that this actually reminds them of what Colombia was like 10 years ago.

And supposedly the peace process and the peace deal with the FARC supposedly had led Colombia to a new situation, a more peaceful situation, which is really not showing at this time.

And again, the main left-wing candidate who is favored by the current government is Iván Cepeda.

He has proposed to continue with these attempts at a political situation, while two conservative candidates, Abelardo de la Espriella and Paloma Valencia, are saying that it is impossible to negotiate with them, that what you need is stronger security policies.

many will think that their position, the conservative position, have been strengthened actually by these violent actions occurring days before the election.

Cubaan ulkomaalaisministeri Bruno Rodríguez sanoo, että Yhdysvallat laittaa vahvistusta moniin maihin, suurin piirtein Länsi-Amerikkaan. Hän sanoo, että hyviä liikkeitä Trumpin hallituksessa tarvitaan, jotta he jatkuvat tämän programin jälkeen. Cuba, kuten joitain raportteja, on 24 000 henkilöä.

...medical professionals working abroad, many of them in the Western Hemisphere, in countries like Venezuela and many others. And several countries recently have said that they are moving away from this scheme, countries like Guatemala, like Honduras.

Now I gather that Washington has hit back at Cuba's claim, and they're suggesting that the Cuban doctors who work abroad may not be doing so entirely willingly. There's strong evidence that the government of Cuba keeps most of the money that it gets from the countries that receive these doctors. So it's not like the doctors are receiving the money directly when they go overseas to perform those duties. Usually it's...

jossa kuban lääkärit saavat melkein pieni osa tuota rahaa. Toisaalta muita arvioivat, että kuban lääkärit, jotka menevät tuohon, saavat hyvän ratkaisun, koska he saavat ainakin jotain rahaa. Yhdysvallat sanoo, että tämä on jotain samanlaista kuin vahvaa työtä, ja se on osa argumenttia, jota he käyttävät tästä programin jatkuvasti.

Toivottavasti Cuban Doctors Program on suurin osa ulkomaalaisuutta Cubaan. Cubaan tulee kymmeniä miljoonia dollaria. Tämä lisää myös todella huonoa tilannetta, jossa Yhdysvalloissa on pitänyt pitää, että Cuban valtio pitäisi elää ekonomisesti.

Luis Fajardo.