FARC - balancing, regional hegemony, and terrorism?

There have been several mentions of the FARC in recent news. First, there was the March 1st raid of a FARC camp just over the Ecuadorian border, which resulted in the death of Raul Reyes, a senior FARC commander. About twenty people we killed, including an Ecuadorian. This raid sparked horrible regional conflict and resulted in Ecuador appealing to the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) asking them to reject Colombia’s actions. All 34 members, except the US, agreed to this proposal. I can’t help but be a realist and ask, so? In all of the articles I have read researching this, no punishment seems to have been inflicted upon Colombia following this rejection of its actions. So naturally, Ecuador sees this and decides to allow their helicopters to fly over Colombian land, claiming it was a complete accident due to navigational error.
Tension is also high because the 10-year lease on the US base in Ecuador is soon up and the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, has announced that he will not allow the lease to be renewed. This is a very important base in the region for the US. Being the US we naturally feel we need to have a hand in everything which more and more seems to be posing a threat to our “global empire.” The base allows the US to monitor illegal drug trafficking and any movement of warships from the Middle East and Asia. Several things can be seen there. This base helped maintain US’s power in the region. US is allied with Colombia and very well may be building up Colombia for the purpose of preventing Venezuela from gaining too much power (prevent its gaining regional hegemony). Meanwhile, this movement on Ecuador’s part (Ecuador is a political ally of Venezuela) could be seen as a form of balancing against US power in the region.
There are also allegations that Venezuela and Ecuador support FARC, the Colombian rebel group. FARC is a very wealthy group. Its money comes from two sources – kidnapping and drugs. If Ecuador rescinds the US military base, thus reducing its ability to limit drug trafficking, this will help FARC economically. The more power FARC has, the less power Colombia has, the more power Venezuela and Ecuador has. Jeese, international politics are confusing. This connection may seem a little bit more legitimate when you take into consideration the fact that Ecuador is up in arms (not literally) about Colombia’s use of anti-drug fumigation in Colombia’s efforts to reduce FARC’s power. Ecuador claims this is a violation of its sovereignty and that it harms their environment. Or maybe they just want to protect FARC’s drug farms?
To relate it to our recent classes, do you consider FARC a terrorist group? The US and Colombia do. But other countries refuse to call them anything but a guerilla group. FARC has been accused of involvement in several bombings in the past few years. They are currently holding about 40 political prisonsers. One of whom is a French woman who was kidnapped six years ago. She has hepatitis B and tropical skin disease and it is a matter of life and death that she receive a blood transfusion within 24-hours. France has sent over a medical team to attend to her and offered FARC refuge for some of its rebels released in a prison release. FARC has so far refused to allow anyone to see the woman.