A bomb exploded near a police station on Wednesday in Tumaco, a city on the southern Pacific coast, killing at least seven people and leaving 75 wounded, local officials said. Federal officials blamed the rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for the bombing. In a Twitter message, President Juan Manuel Santos called the...
President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday rejected a call by a new rebel leader to revive failed peace talks from a decade ago and instead called on the rebels to take real steps toward peace. Latin America's oldest insurgency movement is at its weakest point in years after a crackdown financed partly by the United States, and Mr. Santos has said he...
President Hugo Chávez on Friday appointed as defense minister Gen. Henry Rangel Silva, whom the United States has described as a drug kingpin linked to cocaine smuggling from neighboring Colombia. Mr. Chávez has repeatedly denied Washington's accusations that his government has turned a blind eye to drug trafficking. He is expected to shuffle his...
FARC eller FARC-EP er en forkortelse af det spanske Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejérctio del Pueblo (Colombias revolutionære væbnede styrker – Folkets hær). FARC er en revolutionær, kommunistisk, væbnet oprørsgruppe i Colombia og ulovlig ifølge colombiansk lov. Gruppen blev grundlagt i årene 1964-1966 som en militaristisk fraktion af PCC – Partido Comunista Colombiano, det Colombianske Kommunistparti.
FARC er på både USA's og EU's liste over narkotikarelaterede terroristorganisationer.
FARC anslås at have mellem 12.000 og 18.000 medlemmer, der er repræsenteret i 35-40% af landet. Deres aktiviteter finansieres af lokale skatter og beskyttelsesafgifter, kvægtyverier samt kidnapning og afpresning. FARC er en af verdens rigeste guerillabevægelser. De har udfoldet store bestræbelser på at retfærdiggøre deres kamp. I Danmark støtter blandt andet en gruppe aktivister kaldet Fighters+Lovers FARC. Fold ud