BOGOTA--Colombia's Government quietly explores the possibility of dialogue with the oldest of the country and most powerful guerrilla organization as there is a long-running, Washington-backed military offensive against the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia also tracks, reveal U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks.
The cable Bogota's interest in establishing communications with FARC, showed how the Marxist narcotics trafficking group is known, potentially paving the way for peace talks after decades of conflict.
But such negotiations are an abomination many in the highest ranks of the Government here after FARC Government Zugeständnisse--including a Switzerland-sized secure port-to consolidate and extend a decade ago his control over much of the Andean nation.
The former President Alvaro Uribe, who left power in August, a take no prisoners publicly announced military offensive against the FARC as the only solution.
By the Government peace Commissioner sought the Uribe administration but also "direct contact with the FARC" in 2008, a U.S. State Department memo said to establish. That was in the same year, the Bogotá a string of military victories against the guerrillas, fall some his veteran leader evaluated.
The Colombian Government rejected an opinion.
Another dispatch from February 2010 reveals that FARC leadership was ready to meet, although the cable with the Colombian Government officials in Sweden so far from published Wikileaks omit, if such a meeting has taken place.
A personal meeting took place between a U.S. diplomat and politician was authorized by the Colombian Government to transmit messages to FARC characterised by the US and the EU as a terrorist organisation.
The Messenger's name, the out in the diplomatic cables, "wanted to establish a relationship with the message" under the sponsorship of Jorge Torres, also known as Pablo Catatumbo, has one of the FARC's top commanders have been hidden.
The U.S. Embassy in Bogotá refused an opinion.
Mr Torres, says who has a bounty of $2.5 million by the U.S. Government on his head, and as the rest of the FARC's top executives charged with cocaine trade, Washington wants a key role in every possible peace negotiations the cable.
The U.S.-diplomatic cable carrying a Bogota Dateline, shows that Frank Pearl, Colombia's peace Commissioner believed the FARC guard change a recent's seven Secretariat could lay the groundwork for future peace negotiations.
"Pearl determined that that had led deaths of three members of Secretariat 2008 replacements in more educated, intellectual and the international context of the conflict were aware" reads a cable from January of this year. "This coupled with an analysis of recent FARC communiqués, suggested that the Organization was open for a political solution to the conflict," adds the cable.
President Juan Manuel Santos, who led a series of deadly military operations against FARC's Guide when he served as Defense Minister Uribe a landslide victory by pledging still hardliners directive guerilla manpower has decimated secured.
Signaled shortly after the takeover in August, Mr. Santos, he was open to negotiate with the FARC only to quickly return to his uncompromising attitude, after a car bomb that allegedly by the guerillas planted before a popular radio station in Bogotá ignited.
The Government responded by another brutal blow to FARC--a blessing full military raid the FARC's Deputy, Victor Suarez, also known as to do Mono Jojoy killed.
Supported offensive against FARC Group's estimated thickness of some 20,000 fighter has decimated today the United States to approximately 6,000 guerrillas a decade ago.
The Colombian military's main goal, now seems to Alfonso Cano, FARC's top commander. Mr Cano, which is more than an ideologue as seen as a military leader has a "commitment to a 'Civil'-approach to policy" that is a major obstacle to peace, said the 2008 cable citing former peace Commissioner Juan Carlos Restrepo.
The Colombian Government sees also Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as a roadblock in potential peace negotiations, according to some of the cables. Two members of the FARC's secretariat spend the most in Venezuela, Mr Restrepo turned according to one of the cables.
During a meeting in January with U.S. officials, Mr Uribe assessed that the FARC says "would negotiate never, as long as it enjoyed safe haven in Venezuela from Narcotrafficiking coupled with regular income," the cable.
Venezuela has repeatedly refused to support the FARC.
Darcy Crowe write at darcy.crowe@dowjones.com
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