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Establishment of FARC
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Established in 1964 as the Marxist-Socialist group that grew into a rebel force financed with income from the FARC is Colombia's oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped Marxist insurgency. The FARC is led by Manuel Marulanda and six others. The FARC is organized along military lines and includes several urban fronts. Their goals include spreading communism, gaining power, and controling the drug trade. -
Mono Jojoy Joins FARC
SourceHe joined the Farc in 1975 and rose up the ranks to become one of its most feared and respected military commanders, eventually joining the group's secretariat, its top decision-making body. He was believed to be responsible for the Farc's military development and the brains behind many of the rebel army's victories. -
Columbian Peace Talks
Source The last attempt dates from 1999-2002. A condition for talks was the creation of a demilitarised zone in southern Colombia. The Farc was accused of using this safe haven to import arms, export drugs and build up its military machine.The talks came to an abrupt end after the rebels hijacked a plane in February 2002 and kidnapped Senator Jorge Gechem. -
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Farmer Attack
Source34 coca farmers were found bound hand and foot and shot with automatic weapons. Blame was placed on the FARC-EP by the government, and after several days of uncertainty the FARC-EP publicly claimed responsibility for the massacre, saying they had killed the farmers for being supporters of right-wing paramilitaries and accusing the government of shedding "crocodile tears" for their deaths. The United Nations condemned the massacre as a war crime. -
FARC Cylinder Gas Bomb Attack
SourceRevolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) used those weapons in an attack, which resulted in the killing of a 10-year-old boy and injuries to more than 20 other civilians.Gas cylinder bombs are impossible to aim with accuracy and, as a consequence, frequently strike civilians and cause avoidable civilian casualties. -
Death of Manuel Marulanda Velez
Source: ose from peasant origins to top commander.dopted the nom de guerre Manuel Marulanda Vélez, in honor of a slain union leader.His marksmanship also earned him the nickname Tirofijo, or Sureshot. Considered a brutal pragmatist, Mr. Marulanda vied for power within the FARC with urban intellectuals and labor leaders. By the 1990s he was the group’s supreme leader, after the death of Jacobo Arenas, who hewed to Marxist ideology. -
Abduction of Eight Civilians
SouceThe handover of the eight Colombians, who were abducted July 17, occurred in a rural area of Vigia del Fuerte in the northwestern part of Colombia. Colombian military's use of the Red Cross emblem in a ruse that resulted in the release. -
Death of Alfonso Cano
SourceSecurity forces have killed a number of Farc commanders and arrested many others in recent years. Giving details of the operation, Mr Pinzon said government forces first bombed a Farc jungle camp in Cauca state.Troops were then lowered from helicopters to search the area and killed Cano and several other Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) members in a gun battle -
Colombian rebels free 10 hostages
Source Ten hostages held by a leftist rebel group in Colombia for more than a decade were freed on Monday in a move that might help push peace talks forward, but was also met with some skepticism in a country home to Latin American's oldest insurgency. -
Attacks on Colombia Energy Targets
SourceThe port town of Tumaco on Colombia's Pacific coast went dark for more than a week in early August after guerrillas toppled three electricity towers in the remote area. Rebel-planted land mines did even more damage, delaying the restoration of power while killing at least five people, including two workers trying to repair the towers.
