Colombian Terrorist Groups

SPC Ray A. Rodriguez
B Co., 1st MISB (A)
PDT Academic Paper
February 6, 2012
The FARC in Colombia
This composition is supposed to be written on the illegal build up groups in Colombia. But, I honestly think that a 700 book of account research paper is not enough for me to give a thorough explanation on all the illegal arm groups of Colombia. This is why I chose to do my research on a group who we as MISO Soldiers in 1st BN do evanesce a lot of our time trying to target: The FARC (Revolutionary arm Forces of Colombia).
Colombia has a muniment of violent dissent stretching from Spanish colonial times to the present day. Geographical divisions have unite with social divisions to create a nation repeatedly absent a square, coherent governmental power base. Political protest is always one step away from outright revolution, and the results are frequently bloody.
In 1948, a period of vicious upheaval broke out, an era in Colombias troubled history known simply as La Violencia The Violence. A power vacuum, or at least the absence of strong leadership, had set about a brutal struggle among the Colombian unsubtle Party, Conservative Party and Communist Party. When Liberal Presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was kill in Bogotá the nation descended into chaos.





Rioting immediately ensued in the great leaving as gentlemans gentlemany as 5,000 dead. Spreading to the countryside, idyl groups began waging an unsanctioned and violent civil war. La Violencia would last until most 1958; ten years of brutal national turmoil.
In 1949, a year after the outbreak of La Violencia, a man by the name of Manuel Marulanda Vélez joined a rebel band in support of the Liberals. During the next few debauched years Marulanda would sway towards more communist ideals. His guerrilla persona became more proactive, offensive rather than defensive. He was also information both the politics and the tactics that would later aid him as leader of the FARC.
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