History Of The Revolutionary Armed Forces Of Colombia

The FARC is Colombia’s largest terror group. The FARC was established in 1964. The FARC began with farmers and agricultural workers who abandoned their positions to fight inequalities in Colombia. The FARC revolves around a Marxist-Leninist ideology. The FARCs early establishment suffered losses within its organization due to consistent military raids conducted by the Columbian Forces in order to disrupt or destroy the group. As the fight continued, those losses changed the leadership constantly through the years. The FARC has adapted and overcame many obstacles as the Colombian Government continues its fight against the terror group. As the fight continued through the years, the FARCs ability to change their tactics and weapons advanced. With more powerful weapons through the years and their ability to become more organized, the FARCs ability to fight back became more powerful.

Plan Colombia is a long-prevailing foreign aid package bestowed to the country of Colombia from the United States. This foreign aid package grants substantial financial assistance to Colombia, intending to fight the “War on Drugs” and to reduce the trafficking of narcoleptics, but there is a multitude of other factors and implications, both unintentional or indirect and intentional due to ulterior motives. To accomplish the goals of Plan Colombia, most of the aid has been provided in the form of armed forces. This situation is complicated because of the ongoing civil war between the government of Colombia and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People’s Army (FARC). Additionally making matters difficult has

As Charles Bergquist observes, "Crises in Colombia tend to generate cycles of violence instead of mutations in the political regime." The reason is simple: regime changes in Colombia tend to produce very little change in anything other than nominal rule. Since Colombia's independence from Spain in the early 19th century, Colombia has seen a series of civil wars and secessions (Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama the last coming rather conveniently at a time when the U.S. was prepared to pay millions for a canal through its nation preparation that later resulted in a multi-million dollar redress to Columbia). Colombia's political history, therefore, has been colored by outside influences pulling on the two dominant liberal and conservative parties, with violent exchanges, and long periods of instability being the consequences. While regime changes have occurred, they have not produced significant improvements. Rather, Colombia in the 20th century has become a nesting ground for paramilitary forces and drug traffickers, with U.S. Central Intelligence operatives contributing heavily to the violent conflict that has risen between regimes. This paper will examine the regime types that preceded the Rojas Pinilla regime in mid-20th century Colombia, analyze their similarities and differences, and discuss the extent to which Rojas Pinilla reached his goals and objectives.

The indigenous people of Tairona, Quimbaya, and Muisca were the original inhabitants of what is now referred to as the Colombian territory. The year 1499 marked the arrival of the Spanish and the commencement of a period of colonization that led to the creation of Viceroyalty of New Granada. According to Manning and France (2006), "the Viceroyalty of New Granada was one of the four Viceroyalties which framed Spanish government in eighteenth-century Spanish America, alongside those of Peru, New Spain, and Rio de la Plata" (p. 114). The period of colonization came to an end in 1819. Colombia according to the Central Intelligence Agency CIA (2013), "was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830." Venezuela and Ecuador are the other two countries that emerged from the said collapse. However, it was not until 1886 that the Colombian Republic was finally declared.

The articles provide a brief but clear history on the origin of the Colombian Conflict between the government and FARC. Each article mentions the decade of violence before the founding of FARC, and the initial aims of the militant group.

Colombia’s FARC: A Portrait of Insurgent Intelligence by Gentry and Spencer looks in great detail of the insurgent group known as FARC . The article aims to view how groups FARC uses its intelligence services and groups like FARC. The article also goes into great detail on the history of FARC. The authors say that the groups military intelligence is fairly good but

​Secondly, The US has provided military aid to the corrupt Colombian government, which is in collusion with paramilitary death squads, who, according to the notable Jacobin Magazine, “are both Colombia’s largest human rights violators and the chief impediment to peace.” The Center for Global Development found due to this collusion, “a ten percent increase in US aid is associated with a fifteen percent rise in paramilitary

Under the government of the President James Monroe in 1822, U.S opened up relations with Colombia; with a strategical interest for both nations. The agreements were based in expanding commercial relations and strengthen amity. However, U.S relations with Colombia took a different turn as a result of a new era Colombia’s civil war and drug trafficking . The interest of improve the foreign policy and the security of both countries; In order to maintain the U.S relations with Colombia, an analysis of the conflict in Colombia has to be made to protect the U.S national interest.

Since the late 1990’s the United States and the Columbian government have been trying to work out a plan to help the Columbian government fight the drug trade. It is called Plan Columbia and has been in effect since late 1999 and early 2000. The objective of Plan Columbia is for the U.S. to shift massive aid to the Columbian government. The amount of the aid is around $1.5 billion. This is to help train the Columbian military on the war against drugs. The U.S. will

In Armario Christine’s article about Colombian politics she explains what is happening with the former rebels of that nation. He starts out by talking about the basics, the former rebels are forming a new political party associated with FARC, but then he moves on into the big issue in Colombia, should they let a new party be formed especially with their criminal record. She uses a quote to show that this is an issue in Colombia, it was said by the former peace commissioner Camilo “The fact that a war criminal could become president of Colombia makes no sense”. Mr. Armario uses a very informative tone to get the point and inform America on what is happening in Colombia, he also integrates some informal language to help Americans to understand

This type of ideology would lead to dire consequences for the Mapuche tribes, as even today, these people not only fight against the repression

In fact, the FARC has become increasingly violent throughout its recent history, “today it plants land mines, takes police stations, and ambushes army patrols.” In order to protect themselves, landowners and drug cartels (who had become wealthy and, therefore, targets for guerrilla kidnappings) formed paramilitary death squads. The government fueled the flames, particularly under President Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) by subtly endorsing and cooperating with these paramilitary squads, who claimed to be anti-communist, in order to eliminate the guerrilla influence. To do so, paramilitary groups invaded rural, peasant villages, and massacred the inhabitants, who were accused of sympathizing with guerrillas. The result was an increasingly violent, hostile war that pitted government-endorsed paramilitary organizations and drug cartels against the leftist guerrillas. The guerrillas target wealthy individuals in the city, whilst the paramilitary organizations target the poor, rural peasants, in a conflict that has overwhelmed Colombia and resulted in the shocking statistics in the introduction to this essay. Thus, historically, Colombia had been unable to peacefully resolve conflicts between guerrilla groups and the

Colombia is a Latin American country located in South America that has been ravaged by violence, starvation, and large-scale inequality between higher and lower classes. The chaos in Colombia has been between rebel forces and the government and has lasted for over fifty years. These rebel forces have fought to achieve their Liberalist lead goals of overthrowing the current democratic government of Colombia and replacing it with a communist government. La Violencia was the main contributor to the conflict between the resistance fighters of Colombia and the Colombian government that has brought on violence and terror from the violent actions between the Liberal and Conservative parties in the 1950’s. , which has directly brought on the violence and terror from the guerrilla groups.

The Colombian society has been greatly impacted by the FARC since it has been the spark for various conflicts, deaths, and tragedies due to guerrillas and drug trafficking formed by disagreement towards the government of Colombia. “Not only did FARC use its influence to control the drug trade and tax local communities to fund its activities, but it also enforced its own laws, mediated disputes, provided some limited social services and was involved in the building of roads and other infrastructure in regions it held for decades.” (Crisp, 2017) The conflict between the FARC and the government is one of the many reasons that form Colombia to what it is at present day, mainly stable. “The Colombian conflict” began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army mostly know as the FARC is a guerrilla that affected Colombia since 1964. It has been blamed for military tactics in addition with more unconventional methods, including terrorism. It manages an anti-imperialism political platform. Their operations are financed by kidnapping and its respective rescue money. They sustain themselves from illegal mining extortion in various forms of economic movement and distribution of illegal substances, affecting citizens to obtain political participation or charges.