CLINTON GO HOME! The widely promoted visit of the U.S. president to Colombia will bring nothing positive for our country. This is why the FARC-EP, notwithstanding the stance of the Nariño Palace, and in the name of millions of compatriots, declare Clinton's presence on Colombian territory non grata. Clinton is not coming for peace. He is not coming to support the efforts for a political solution to the conflict, nor to suspend the ruthless policies of the International Monetary Fund. Clinton is coming to Cartagena to put the Plan Colombia into effect, which, more than a counter-insurgency plan, is a plan against Colombia for imperial geopolitics. Plan Colombia, contrived in English, is a serious threat to our peace process, and represents a real danger of generalizing the war and increasing Yankee military intervention, which may lead to its Vietnamization. This calls for immediate solidarity among our neighboring countries, and more war materials and technology sold by the U.S. military industrial complex, which in turn will loose a criminal arms race among poor countries, a larger sepoy army violating human rights and executing State paramilitarism, more NorthAmerican advisors like those who trained the paramilitaries in Barrancon Guaviare who caused the Mapiripan massacre, greater repression of poor peasants, and more fumigation with chemical and biological substances causing rampant devastation to the Amazon, the ecological patrimony of humanity. With Plan Colombia, North American imperialism seeks to consolidate, through military intervention, neo-liberal economic policies, and to open a loophole in our sovereignty to give way to unresisted impositions of the International Monetary Fund. This will mean more privatization, progressively higher unemployment, miserable salaries, and all the discounts and guarantees for exploiting our natural resources and increasing foreign investment. This is why the Plan also backs the unjust and violent Colombian State and its administration. Washington knows it can count on a servile capitualiting oligarchy which, to preserve its privileges and power, is capable not only of offering more sweat and tears to the population, but of handing over the entire country and our sovereignty to the insatiable voracity of the empire. Still, Washington must also know that there is a Colombian people poised to risk it all for our country. Since Plan Colombia is also a U.S. attempt to dissuade the insurgency, we can reaffirm that the FARC, backed by the people, are ready for the ultimatum. Our unbreakable will to fight is firmly linked to social justice, true democracy, complete sovereignty, and the new State of the people and for the people. We call on Colombians to, with a true sense of patriotism and dignity, and inspired by sentiments for anti-imperialism and Latin American unity instilled in us by our liberator Simon Bolivar, express in various ways our rejection of the imperialist visitor and his Plan Colombia and the sell-out oligarchy. WITH BOLIVAR, FOR PEACE AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CENTRAL COMMAND FARC, ARMY OF THE PEOPLE The Montains of Colombia, August 23, 2000