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For those who are unfamiliar with the intricacies of Latin American politics, and I include myself in this group, the recent headlines blaring the prospect of “peace” between the government of Colombia and the FARC rebel group sounded like good news.

However, according to this WSJ piece, the so-called “peace” deal, which was voted down by the citizens of Colombia several days ago, was slated to be nothing more than a huge “give-away” to the murdering thugs.

And guess who was behind the failed referendum?

Yep, the Castro brothers, and their BFF, Obama.

The paradox of Obama foreign policy is that its compromises with enemies of liberty in the interest of peace are leaving the world more violent, polarized and dangerous. This is especially true in Latin America.

On Oct. 2, Colombia will hold a plebiscite to ask the nation to approve or reject an Obama-backed agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), designated by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization. The deal gives the FARC amnesty for its war crimes, which include the recruitment of thousands of child soldiers, massacres of villages, political executions, bombings and kidnappings.

Under the agreement, negotiated and signed in Havana, the FARC will also get unelected seats in Congress and special welfare benefits. It will be given dozens of radio stations—so that it can disseminate its propaganda, a privilege no other political party has….

Ask Cubans who are enduring the fallout from another Obama legacy project: the 2014 decision to normalize relations with the military dictatorship and increase American economic engagement with the island. Repression in Cuba has since spiked, and Havana has become bolder in its joint activities with dangerous states like North Korea.

Venezuela also is more brutal since Mr. Obama first tried to warm relations with Hugo Chávez in 2009. More recently the State Department has spent months dithering over “dialogue” between the beleaguered opposition and the country’s Cuban-backed military regime, when the U.S. could have been building international pressure for a return to democracy.

Mr. Obama’s support for the Colombia-FARC deal completes his Latin trifecta. In 2009 Colombia was united against the FARC and celebrating its near-defeat on the battlefield led by President Álvaro Uribe.

Now the country is being torn apart by the signed agreement, which is practically a surrender, and by vicious government intimidation tactics designed to silence dissenters and jam the accord down the throats of Colombians….

The agreement is 297 pages and it is not wild speculation to suggest that few Colombians will read it. Instead, they will be asked whether they “support the final agreement to end the conflict and the construction of a stable and lasting peace.” As former Colombian vice minister of justice Rafael Nieto has observed, this wording directly violates the high court’s order. It also avoids mentioning either the hated FARC or the unpopular Santos government. Perhaps most egregiously, it misleads the public about the prospects for peace because dissenters in FARC, its criminal partners in drug running and the other guerrilla group, ELN, will remain active.

The Castro crime family badly wants this deal, which may be the only way to explain why Mr. Obama is putting the U.S. seal of approval on it.

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