Nakena wrote:Dude. Bringing FARC apologia in here? Seriously?
I'm sympathetic to why and how FARC were initially created. Remember it all started in 1948 when Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the very popular left-wing candidate for the presidential, was murdered just before the election, with CIA involvement, granting the "victory" to his opponent. That's what started Colombia's civil war, and the FARC. In that context, it was very legitimate.
After 50 years of guerilla, they somewhat "lost their soul" and became something half-way between a guerilla and a drug/crime cartel, and I've not much sympathy for modern FARC/ELN. But we shouldn't forget they are/were not the main source of political violence in Colombia, the main source of violence are the right-wing paramilitaries that hunt unionists and leftists, and the state that protects, backs and empowers them, when the state security forces don't directly murder their population ("false positive", ...).