1960’s after Colombia’s two main political parities ended more than a decade of political violence and agreed to share power. FARC formed in 1964. B. They represent the rural poor against Colombia’s wealthy classes and oppose U.S. influence in Colombia‚ the privatization of natural resources‚ multinational corporations‚ and rightist violence is the reason they formed The FARC. C. A few communist militants and peasant self-defense groups joined to become The FARC. Manuel Marulanda was looked at
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Introduction The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia or FARC) is the” largest‚ best-trained and equipped‚ and most effective insurgent organization in Colombia and in South America” (Terrorist Group Profiles‚ 1988‚ p.102). The FARC was officially formed in 1966 as a leftist‚ communist group; however they leaned towards a Marxist strain of communism as their ideology. Although the FARC is concentrating less on the overthrow of the Colombian government
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Nowadays‚ the Colombian government is closing the agreements with Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia‚ FARC. These agreements will take Colombia to a different environment where the security institutions will have to focus on problems that have a diverse nature. These challenges are going to be drug trafficking‚ corruption‚ illegal economies‚ criminal gangs‚ and Venezuelan instability‚ among others. The mission command philosophy‚ applied in all levels of planning‚ may have a valuable and
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As soon as the summer of 2015 ended‚ I was living in Colombia. I was used to spending summer with my family and friends in Colombia or traveling to the US to play golf tournaments or golf camps. But that summer was different. My parents told me I was spending the summer at USF in Tampa at “SuperCamp”. I read all about it on the internet and all it said was that it was a fun academic camp. I was not happy at all‚ but the decision was already made. I remember when I arrived to campus‚ there were
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they witness prisoners being tortured and mutilated. “An estimated eighty percent of the children under arms belong to one of the two guerrilla groups‚ the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) or the National Liberation Army (ELN)”(Bradbury). At least one of every four irregular combatants in Colombia is under eighteen years of age (Snyder). Also the guns they use are lightweight‚ so they are easily armed. The issue of child combatants is completely ignored by the Columbian government
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History FARC’s roots go back to the early 20th century. Communists were active within Colombia since the end of the first world war. In 1926 the Revolutionary Socialist Party (PSR) was formed yet it transformed into the Communist Party in Columbia (PCC). The PCC had a large and strong agrarian following in addition to its more urban membership. PCC members began to form small communes in rural parts of the country. (Brittain 2010) The formation of the National Front changed everything. There was
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References: Angel-Urdinola‚ Diego F. F. and Wodon‚ Quentin T.‚ The Gender Wage Gap and Poverty in Colombia (August 2003). Archivos de Economia Working Paper No. 239. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=581581or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.581581 Bello‚ J.‚ Brandau-Brown‚ F.‚ Ragsdale‚ D.‚ & Thibodeaux‚ T. (2006). “Cultural perceptions
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In 2013‚ the Colombia Supreme Court chose to upset his sentence‚ despite the fact that the court still made it clear in their sentiments that flexibility of assessment was not total and that writers could in any case be indicted for criticism. Despite the fact that this choice is just a halfway stride forward‚ the court’s choice says a lot without bounds of the Colombian press. This decision opens the entryway for further decriminalization of defamation and less oversight for the press. The a good
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An example of intersectionality is in Colombia around thirty percent of female getting pregnant due to poverty‚ but there was this one female who was a Hispanic and due to her family being in poverty she had to go through prostitution. If the tables were turned the males in the family or anywhere in Colombia would not have to go through that path instead they would do something else different like join a gang or even sell drugs. The second example is in Haiti when an African American female child
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José Martíwas born in Havana on Jan. 28‚ 1853‚ of Spanish parents. at 16 he published a Havana newspaper‚ La Patria Libre‚ and wrote a dramatic poem‚ Abdala. sentenced to prison as a teenager for expressing his support for the revolution (during the Ten-Year War) Martí is considered one of the great turn-of-the-century Latin American intellectuals. His written works consist of a series of poems‚ essays‚ letters‚ lectures‚ a novel‚ and even a children’s magazine Martí was the elder brother to
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