First Public Communication Manuel Pérez 1979
Message to the Colombian People. From the Colombian mountains, I inform the people that the news that appeared in the mass media is false. I continue fighting with weapons in hand alongside my comrades and the people of Colombia. I follow the example of my brothers in the priesthood, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Domingo Laín, José Antonio Jiménez, and so many others who fell in Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador; and of my working-class brothers, peasants, students, and professors who fell in the struggle for national liberation and the construction of socialism. The news that I have invited the comrades of the Camilo Torres Restrepo Front to lay down their arms is false, a front to which I am proud to belong. Our Front, our Organization, remains, now more than ever, convinced of the justice and necessity of the process of Protracted People's War, which the people are beginning to develop. I feel completely identified with the principles and objectives of the struggle of the Natio...
