BOGOTA – Colombian daily El Nuevo Herald reported today that the FARC terrorist group recently reiterated their intention to continue "armed struggle" and asserted that they would not accept what they described as "false calls for negotiation and consensus" from the Colombian government.
 
The head of the FARC said in a statement released Sunday on the terrorist group's website  that there are "only two forms of struggle," which it described as "street fighting in marches and protests, and guerrilla fighting in the mountains."
 
"The heroic resistance of the Colombian insurgency, as well as the voice on the mobilized people in protest, can not stop with a fake call for negotiation and consensus," the Secretariat of the FARC added.
 
The FARC communique further stated that after the death of their leader Alfonso Cano on November 4th in an operation of the Colombian military, to lay down their arms would be a cowardly act, and would betray what it stated was "the popular cause and the revolutionary ideology that is used for social transformation."
 
However, without clarifying the obvious contradiction, the FARC statement also said that, in memory of their killed commander, they "pledge to persist in the search for a political solution to achieve a democratic peace with dignity and social justice."
 

As of yet, the terrorist group has not designated a successor to Alfonso Cano, whose real name was Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas.
 
 
Analysts have said that there are two likely successors to Cano: "Ivan Marquez", 56-year-old whose real name is Luciano Marín Arango, or "Timochenko," a 52-year-old whose real name is Rodrigo Londoño. Both Iván Márquez and Timochenko are already members of the Secretariat of the FARC.