Concept in Definition ABC

The acronym FARC is the one used to designate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, an illegal paramilitary association not recognized by the Colombian State, with a ideology Marxist-Leninist who specializes in the kidnapping, torture and extortion of both Colombian and foreign people. The FARC are one of the few organizations illegal and terrorists left in Latin America and its eradication is considered extremely difficult because it obtains much of its power from production and from Commerce of cocaine.

The FARC were founded in 1964 in Colombia, in a period in which numerous political and social organizations developed with a profile revolutionary. The objective of the FARC was precisely to establish in Colombia a revolution agrarian who was opposed to government and that it sought to consolidate the Marxist-Leninist precepts that supposed the power of the working masses. However, over time and with the erosion of revolutionary ideals, the FARC had to seek sustenance in other activities, and today the production and trade of cocaine is the first element for its sustenance.

The FARC are located in rural areas, in the Colombian mountains and valleys, from where they operate and organize their armed lifestyle. This guerrilla is characterized by the development of armed conflicts not only with the Colombian State but also with other Latin American States and the rest of the world. This has to do with the fact that many of those kidnapped and held in captivity are not Colombian and therefore, the different States must intervene.

It is considered that since the arrival of Álvaro Uribe to Colombian power, the FARC have lost an important part of their power. This is so not only because of the capture and arrest of its most significant leaders, but especially because of the iron politics of non-negotiation and of military territorial advance over the spaces previously dominated by the FARC that this president maintained.