I supported FARC as a people’s resistance movement in the ’60s and ’70s but they failed to obtain and sustain the support of the masses, and today’s generation of Farc-sters are thugs. They traffic drugs, run guns, kidnap, rape, murder. The elders are no longer freedom fighting heroes – but aging criminals, raising their young to maintain a lifestyle of jungle hegemony – by any means necessary. They are no longer a “resistance” but have become no different than those they fight against – and are very aware that the “left” in the US is simpatico.

Also “…Corporate giants are in charge, mostly US ones.” You might want to research the validity of that idea b/c after the mergers, takeovers, and buyouts which began in earnest under Reagan, not many corporate giants are solely “US ones.” For instance, the Chrysler plant in Mexico is actually a German owned corporation. Or as in Citibank which became Citigroup after acquiring Banamex and others. What with mergers and subsidiaries and trans-border holdings, corporations in charge have become one giant octopus of global interconnections.

The Merida Initiative will likely pass as so many US politicians are in bed with Mexico’s pols – but congressional Democrats are pushing a similar idea/legislation regarding their favorite sector of the hemisphere to own and oppress – the Caribbean.

As for the SPP/North American Union – imagine the silver lining. The creation of NAU is one small step toward the goal of a world w/o borders or countries or possessions and maybe no religions too, where the world can live as one (corporation).