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‚ the group is still
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Comparative Politics FARC: Coming Closer to its End Colombia has been in turmoil with the Marxist-Leninist group called FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) for almost fifty years. However‚ since 2002 with the election of Alvaro Uribe things have begun to change. Alvaro Uribe’s policy of “Democratic Security” or “get tough” agenda that involves aggressive action against the FARC economically‚ judicially‚ and militarily‚ has strongly worked in weakening the FARC and bring Colombia
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Colombia’s government and the rebel group FARC reached an agreement May 17‚ 2014 on ending the illegal drug trade. The deal called for FARC to cooperate with the government in convincing farmers to grow crops other than coca‚ which is used to make cocaine. The announcement was made Friday in Havana where the two sides have been negotiating an end to a 50-year-old insurgency. Colombia was the world’s leading producer of cocaine until Peru recently overtook it in cultivation of coca. The cocaine industry
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Colombia The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party that was formed in 1964 after Castro’s Cuban revolution. FARC’s ideological goal is to overthrow the democratic government of Colombia and replace it with a Communist regime. The group supports Marxist-Leninist theory of redistribution of wealth by seizing it from the wealthy and giving it to the poor. Also‚ FARC opposes U.S. influence in Colombia‚ the privatization of natural
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The FARC Purpose Statement: To inform the class about The FARC Thesis Statement: To understand The FARC you have to look into their background‚ look at their regional familiarization‚ and the threat they pose towards the United States. Introduction Attention Getter: People are fighting and dying every day trying to get the freedoms they feel should be given to them. The FARC has been fighting for these rights but going about it the wrong way‚ they use bombings‚ murder‚ mortar attacks‚ kidnapping
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Colombia’s Peace Treaty with guerilla group‚ FARC Since 1964‚ Colombia has been in war against the largest guerilla group called The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia‚ also known as FARC. The rebel group was created by Marxists to fight for the justification of the poor‚ considering only the rich minority owns the majority of the land in Colombia. With the opinion that violence will bring more success to carry out their plan for a change in the government‚ the FARC has been committing many crimes such
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Facts/Background FARC and AUC (two Colombian organizations currently designated by the U.S. as terrorist organizations) purportedly threatened Chiquita’s executives to hurt employees in the Colombian plant if the company failed to provide the payments for their “protection.” Chiquita continued to do so until two years after the U.S. designated AUC as a terrorist organization. The U.S. government fined Chiquita for giving “protection money” to FARC and AUC. Now the victims and families of FARC and AUC are
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In Colombia today is a peace process going on between the terrorists of the narco terrorist groups FARC and the government. For the Armed forces is difficult to understand that the government is negotiating with the FARC‚ while this narco-guerrilla has continued hitting the country‚ they are still killing soldiers‚ civil population and drug trafficking. Since 1945‚ this group has committed a lot of massacres against the civil population‚ they have been drug trafficking worldwide‚ and also they
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INTRODUCTION The past fifty years in Colombia have been dominated by the struggle between the government and an organization named Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) or better known as the FARC. Founded in 1964 the FARC was created as a military wing of the Colombian Communist Party to overthrow the government and prevent them from industrializing Colombia (“Revolutionary”). The Colombian government planned to industrialize the country and rebuild them
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the Colombian Government still consider an agreement with FARC and give them the area that they asked for in order to start the negotiations for the peace?? Assignment Executive Summary The second of July 2008 the Colombian army released from the hands of Farc fifteen hostages including three North Americans and the half French Ingrid Betancourt. In many opportunities the government of Colombia has shown its willingness to talk to Farc in order to make an agreement of peace. Nevertheless to
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