Not that the FARC ever stopped committing acts of terrorism funded by narcotics trafficking, but thanks to support from Cuba and its colony of Venezuela, which are rearming the terrorists, they are now officially back.

Andres Oppenheimer in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Colombia’s armed rebels are back, with Venezuela’s help

Many see the announcement by a dissident group of Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) rebels that they will break a 3-year-old peace deal and resume armed struggle as a domestic problem. But, more likely, it will become a Colombia-Venezuela dispute — and perhaps escalate into a regional conflict.

Colombian President Ivan Duque already has pinned the blame on Venezuela. Hours after the FARC’s Aug. 29 announcement, he said that the leftist rebels are “a narco-terrorist criminal gang that counts on the safe harbor and support of (Venezuelan) dictator Nicolás Maduro.”

What’s more, the Colombian government said the 32-minute video in which the FARC rebels announced their decision to take up arms again had been taped in Venezuelan territory. Colombian officials say Maduro, with Cuba’s help, has decided to help rearm Colombia’s rebels in an effort to destabilize that country.

“Venezuela is becoming South America’s Iran,” Francisco Santos, Colombia’s ambassador to Washington, told me. “Much like Iran uses Hezbollah to destabilize neighboring countries, Venezuela uses terrorist organizations to destabilize its neighbors.”

The dissident FARC group that decided to take up arms again is estimated to be about 2,000 strong, while another 13,000 former FARC guerrillas who have abandoned the armed fight under a 2016 peace accord are sticking to the agreement.

But the leaders of the FARC’s dissident group that broke the peace accord said they will seek to team up with the ELN, another leftist guerrilla group that the Colombian government says is even more closely tied to Venezuela. Colombian officials say that 47% of ELN rebels operate out of Venezuelan territory.