The Guantanamo incident put an end to the United States' invincibility in the Caribbean, and in this conflict, the supreme leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, who keenly seized this rare opportunity to drive the Americans out of Cuban territory in one fell swoop. He proved that he was still the most resolute revolutionary in the Caribbean and Latin America. The Guantanamo incident brought Castro back to the banner of revolutionary movements in the Caribbean. The left-wing armed groups in Colombia that participated in the Guantanamo operation, although they lost a lot of men and horses in this operation, they gained the hearts of millions of poor people in Colombia.

In 1986, far-left armed groups in Colombia began to launch a massive offensive against the Colombian government forces and right-wing military groups. Poor farmers in Colombia have also risen up to join the movement. The M19 419 Movement, which gained great prestige in Colombia because of the Guantanamo incident, the National Liberation Army of Colombia, the Colombian People's Liberation Army, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia formed the United Revolutionary Front, and they used the honoraria paid to them by Seryosha to recruit and expand their armaments. In the midst of this revolutionary upsurge, Colombian government forces began to retreat, abandoning the vast rural areas of western Colombia and holding on to the big cities.

Colombia's democratically elected president, Belisario Betancourt Quartas, is truly feeling the pressure like never before. As Quartas began to review his own policies, he felt that he had put too much trust in his ally, the United States, and neglected the objective conditions in Colombia.

Objectively speaking, Quartas was not a bad president, on the contrary, he had a high reputation among intellectuals. After Quartas, who was trained in law, took office, he hoped that Colombia could get rid of the chaos and disorder that had plagued it for many years, so Quartas has been committed to building and formulating the legal environment in Colombia to prevent corruption and centralization from corroding Colombia. Unfortunately, Quartas was born at an opportune time, and during his tenure the entire capitalist society was in crisis, with an annual economic growth rate of only 0.9 in Colombia, industrial production in decline, and agricultural production stagnating. Although Quartas has adopted reforms similar to those of Pinochet in Chile, opening up Colombia's markets to foreign investors and marketizing state-owned companies and public utilities, these perceived successes have only made the situation worse on Colombian soil.

In order to gain the support of the United States, Quartas had to step up the crackdown on domestic drug cartels. But Quartas was not from a poor background, and he could not understand that coca was almost the only cash crop that could keep everyone alive for the poor peasants of Colombia. He didn't understand that the unemployed workers in Colombia could not find a job to make a living except for drug trafficking. Quartas and the Americans' anti-drug campaign was simply trying to drive these poor people to the brink.

The Guantanamo incident made it clear to Quartas that the Americans were not invincible. The growing revolutionary movement in the country also began to force Quartas to re-examine his domestic policy. Quartas's term ends in August of this year. If he doesn't want to be ousted prematurely and nailed to the pillar of shame in Colombian history forever, he must do something to save the day.

Quartas gathered several of his key cabinet ministers together for several days on end to discuss countermeasures. Most of Quartas's cabinet were intellectuals, with only the Minister of Defense being a member of the ranks. As a result, only the Minister of Defence made a somewhat feasible proposal to divide the cooperative relationship between Colombian drug cartels and Colombian left-wing guerrillas.

The Minister of Defense said to Quartas: "Mr. President, it seems to me that the Medellín and Cali groups are not at all the same as the guerrillas who fight on drugs. What the guerrillas are against, it is the rich like Escobar. But what we have always taken is to reconcile with the left-wing guerrillas and to eliminate drug trafficking organizations like the Medellín group! But in the eyes of the guerrillas, our government represents the interests of rich people like Escobar! And the neoliberal economic strategy you are pursuing protects the interests of these big capitalists! ”

The main reason why the defense minister is willing to openly criticize President Quartas's policies at such a meeting is that the current government's term is about to expire, and whoever is elected president will have to be the defense minister. Moreover, Quartas was not a strong man, and he was good at taking the opinions of others, which was both his strength and his disadvantage. To put it nicely, this kind of behavior of Quartas is called admonishment, and to put it badly, it is indecision. The Minister of Defense, Juan Manuel, has long seen through what kind of character this president is.

"Juan, do you have any good suggestions? Tell me about it! Quartas and the rest of the room looked at Defense Minister Juan Manuel, wondering what the military man was thinking about.

"Mr. President, remember last year Escobar sent representatives to communicate with us, hoping to offer more than $10 billion in exchange for a pardon for the leadership of the Medellín bloc?" The Minister of Defense suddenly asked everyone.

"Remember, but how can we agree to this kind of thing, if we really accept it, then the country of Colombia will be discredited!" Quartas heard Juan Manuel's remarks and wondered if he had taken any advantage from the drug dealer and came here as a lobbyist for Escobar. So the tone of Quartas is very bad.

"No, Mr. President, I think you misunderstood me! I mention this to show you that, compared to the far-left guerrilla forces, Escobar's Medellín clique is like a dog waiting at our door and wants us to throw a bone out! Rather than trying to get rid of the guerrillas who want to overthrow the government, we should first stabilize Escobar and get him out of the alliance with the guerrillas. One thing we have to make clear is that as long as Escobar leaves these guerrillas, then there is no way for the guerrillas to sell the cocaine produced by the guerrillas to the United States, and their financial resources will be cut off! ”...