The FARC is on the United States’ annual list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and has been since October of 1997. [72] In April of 2015 the listing was re-evaluated, and United States Secretary of State John Kerry successfully pushed to keep the FARC on the FTO list. [73] The FARC is also on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations. [74] In 2008, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez requested that the FARC be removed from the European list but the FARC was not removed