A través de sus redes sociales, las FARC EP acaban de publicar un video musical llamado "Pueblo colombiano pa' la mesa", a través del cual, como su nombre lo dice (aunque podría confundirse con una invitación a cenar o a visitar el popular municipio de Cundinamarca), invitan a sus compatriotas a participar en los diálogos de paz.  Hecho en combi desde La Habana con el grupo  cubano Cuentas Claras, el tema es una arenga popular que, a ritmo de hip hop latino y con ~un espíritu muy a la Calle 13~ una producción tremendamente pop, tira rima pirotécnica contra la diestra y la sinestra e,  incluso, se sirve hasta del autotune para ver si pega entre el público más general. ¿Lo logrará? ¿Tendrá que pagar payola para hacerlo? No lo sabemos. Cabe resaltar, sorprendentemente, el _featuring_ estelar de la holandesa Tanja Nijmeijer, quien se unió a las filas de la guerrilla hace 10 años y que, a la hora del _flow_, lo hace hasta bien. Y además tiene toda la actitud. Y hay que aceptarlo: está como buena. Es más, ¿será este el sencillo promocional de un próximo EP debut, a llamarse justamente _FARC EP,_ en el que, ahora que la guerrilla anda hablando de "verdad", serían incluídos futuros bombazos como _La quiebrapata_ y _Secuéstrame-me_?

Eso sí, no hay que negarlo, la producción del video está mucho más decente y hasta tiene más onda que la de muchos de [nuestros presidenciables...](http://www.vice.com/es_co/read/estrategias-para-una-campaa-descolorida)

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For more information: http://farc-epeace.org/index.php/what-you-should-know/item/408-farc-launch-new-rap-song.html
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This music video, made by guerrilla fighters of the FARC-EP, received almost 60.000 views in one week! Unfortunately, a copyright demand was made on one photo used in the video and to avoid our channel to be closed, we re-edited and re-published the video. The complete, new video is published here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp7Exyp5go&list=PL7VzBYGTrWEdCKYsCdmoBb3GTNrX8YUth&index=2
We apologize for this inconvenience and we hope you enjoy the video! Peace Delegation FARC-EP
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The guerrilla fighters of the FARC-EP present this audiovisual work called "Pueblo colombiano pa'la mesa" (Colombians, everybody to the peace talks).

In this video, we have tried to reflect the difficult situation of the Colombian peasantry, of which many of the guerrilla fighters were part before joining the FARC-EP. There are thousands of stories like the one of guerrilla comandante Miguel Pascuas, main character of this video.

Our farmers are persecuted, stigmatized, displaced; their crops are fumigated. And when they decide to join the guerrilla movement because the state does not offer any opportunities for them to live decently, they are being criminalized and a reward is offered for their heads.

Their stories and sufferings are part of the historical truth of the social and armed conflict in our country. Their reasons for fighting, individual at first, but soon multiplied and collectivized, are the causes that have led to this conflict. Sadly, Colombia's reality at the beginning of the 21st century belies the instilled myth that 'the objective reasons that may have existed at the beginning don't exist any longer'. They abound. You can perceive them in ignorance, hunger and exclusion.

Miguel Pascuas was part of the group of 48 courageous peasants who founded the FARC-EP, in Marquetalia, southern Tolima (Colombia). Together with Manuel Marulanda Vélez, Jacobo Prías Alape, Jacobo Arenas and other brave rebels, he resisted a huge military operation with 16,000 soldiers, directed from the Pentagon.

They started to organize themselves, first as a self-defense force, and then as a guerrilla movement with a strategic project for the seizure of power for the people, by political means (alliances) or by military means.

Today, 50 years later, he is a member of the Peace Delegation of the FARC-EP in Havana, Cuba. He has experienced four peace processes; four dreams of social justice, brutally interrupted by a ruling class that has never wanted to share or listen.

We are proud to have him with us, and we feel glad we can learn from his experiences.

We want to send a message of optimism about the current peace process that takes place in Havana, Cuba. In the video we express what peace means to us; we think that to reach peace, we must learn to speak without fear, without taboos. There are no untouchable people; respect is earned not by titles or by violence, but by being fair and tolerant.

We must learn to demand our right to peace with social justice. Instruments such as the National Constituent Assembly, or a bilateral cease-fire are needed to reach it. But, first of all, we need to discover the truth about the conflict. Not the truth seen from above, from below or sideways, but the whole, multicolored truth.

We made this video with the Cuban rap group "Cuentas Claras" in an enjoyable mutual learning process. This group, founded in 2003, uses straightforward language and talks about essential world issues, current situations and problems in their songs, focusing it in a positive way and with constructive criticism. They pay special attention to the reality of Cuba, with a revolutionary viewpoint.  To download music from this group, https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Frap-cuentas-claras%2Fnuevo-farc-ep-canta-rap-pueblo-colombiano-pala-mesa&redir_token=pjzqgEc2adFsD6dGpKjPAucVTIx8MTQwMTAyNTcyNEAxNDAwOTM5MzI0

Mixed accents, hummed melodies, battles of ideas and motifs of young people, who want to build homeland; here, there, everywhere... The rebellious youth won't ever remain silent when there is injustice.

http://www.farc-epeace.org
Peace Delegation FARC-EP, Havana, Cuba

Rap music by the FARC EP and Cuentas Claras

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Las FARC acaban de lanzar un video musical llamado "Pueblo colombiano pa' la mesa", hecho en combi  desde La Habana con el grupo de hip hop cubano Cuentas Claras y con el  featuring de la holandesa Tanja Nijmeijer, quien se unió a las filas de la guerrilla hace 10 años y que, por demás, tiene flow de sobra. ¿Será este el sencillo promocional de su EP debut, a llamarse justamente FARC EP? 

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