NYSE boss meets Colombian rebel

[Sam Pawlett]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> [Fred Rosen, editor of NACLA's Report on the Americas, told me the
> other night that the Colombian rebel groups have pretty much lost
> their ideological passions and are just in it out of habit by now.
> Don't know how true that is, but that's what he said.]
> 

Right.This says more about Mr. Rosen and his magazine than it does about
FARC or ELN. Two weeks into their Bolivian campaign Che Guevara and
Pombo had lost their ideological passion and were in it largely out of
habit. The notion that out of habit, one could give up her regular life
to lead a nomadic existence in the mountains and jungles under constant
attack and threat of death is absurd and presumptuous. NACLA's notion of
class stuggle ends where the sidewalk does.

Sam Pawlett