In a twisted way, women in the FARC are carving a path for themselves: as female snipers for pro-Gaddafi forces, and they are appeareantly very good. The Washington Times reported women from the FARC have joined other mercenaries coming from Algeria, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Ukraine, and they are each paid $1,000 a day. The women allegedly shoot to kill and their victims have sustained head, chest and neck injuries.
The FARC has maintained ties with Gaddafi for some years, according to information found in laptops belonging to Raul Reyes, a FARC chief killed in a bombing raid by the Colombian army. One computer contained a letter to Gaddafi asking for a loan of $100 million to buy weapons. President Santos said Gaddafi offered the FARC $300 million but it is unclear if the transaction happened.
It’s a surprise that female FARC members are serving as mercenaries in Libya. Women make up 30 percent of the estimated 8,000 (or more, plus sympathizers) FARC combatants in Colombia. The women are often very young, even as young as pre-teens. Often, the pretty girls are forced into the role of a commander’s lover (read: sex slave), and the not-so-pretty girls are delegated to the group’s chores, like cooking, tending the fire, and washing. Virtually no woman has attained a high position within the FARC and no woman has ever been a member of the FARC Secretariat.
In Colombia, in groups who claim to be fighting for social equality, it is most telling that men still push women into minor roles. The female snipers are obviously bright and tough, and have navigated and risen through a macho system, and it is unfortunate that their strengths could be not be funelled into a project away from violence.
Talking About Colombia 
It is nice to defame one of the bravest revolutionary movements today recognized by Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba, decadence comes in anywhere and even more under stress, if these women, heroines of South America were born to be fighters, they naturally seek their place in the defence of the people “onde quer que sea”
As to machismo among those South American what about the high positions relatively reached by women among some of their other “groups” unworthy of a place alongside leftist achievement, and supposing some of these women find love, and then just stop, they are after all originally Catholic
By: Inez Deborah Emilia Altar on July 13, 2011
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