Colombian602's Blog

Columbia is on the right path and needs to perserve, the USA should continue to assist no matter who is president.
Yes they had every right to cross the borders after these murderers. I would hope we would do the same.

This is the most accurate and short version of their history courtesy of MILITARY.com/Resources

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was born from the civil war that devastated Columbia from 1948-1958. The war between the Liberal and Conservative political parties was sparked when agents of the conservative government assassinated liberal party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. The ensuing civil war resulted in the deaths of over 200,000 Columbians and spawned a plethora of guerrilla groups. One such group, headed by Manuel Marulanda, broke off from the Liberals and in 1966 and became the Marxist-oriented FARC.

FARC gained some influence in the country's remote rural areas but remained a marginal group throughout the sixties and seventies. In the eighties however, FARC's power increased dramatically as it began extorting taxes from Columbia's flourishing drug trade. Income from the drug taxation, now estimated to be around $300 million per year, resulted in a sharp increase in the group's ability to acquire arms and new recruits.

In 1984 the government of conservative president Belisario Betancur negotiated a cease-fire with FARC and two smaller insurgency groups, M-19 and EPL. Amnesty was granted to many FARC prisoners and the group renounced its armed struggle. The cease-fire allowed the formation of right-wing paramilitary groups who began to mount attacks against FARC that eventually led to a breakdown of negotiations. By 1986 all efforts to find a peaceful solution were abandoned by both sides and the guerrillas retreated into the mountains to face a n

oh wow yes i was cut off haha maybe they are on to me, or maybe i reached the text limit.