COLOMBIAN REBEL CANO ANSWERS A QUESTION DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH REUTERS, 2000-04-30 (photo)

Alfonso Cano, Colombian rebel ideologue and head of the Bolivarian Movement, the newly-launched political organization of the FARC, gestures, April 30, against the background of a portrait of the eyes of 19th Century South American independence hero Simon Bolivar, during an interview with Reuters in Villa Nora hamlet, near San Vicente del Caguan, in southeast Caqueta province. The movement was launched the previous day at a ceremony attended by some 20,000 peasants and 5,000 rebels. In the interview Cano said the Bolivarian Movement would try and change Colombia's political habits by civilized methods but warned the rebels would use force if the ruling classes resisted change. JMG/RCS