HISTORY 166D Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Transitional Justice, Juan Manuel Santos, Narcoterrorism
20 Jun 2016
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Lecture 28 sspb 2214: armed revolutionary forces of colombia (farc) largest and longest running movement in the americas. Fighting the farc has led 200k dead, 27k kidnapped. Started by manuel sure shot marulanda (pedro antonio marin) Becomes serious in the 1980"s reach 21k armed members. At one point the farc had a presence with 60% of people in colombia. Ideologically farc is a marxist-sociliast movement fighting to overthrow system. Farc denounces colombia"s hunger, highly concentrated wealth, rallies against privatization of national resources, a closed political system. The problem is farc brutal actions casts real doubt about its sincerity (bombings, massacred peasants, human rights have condemned farc for recruitment of children). Most people have joined farc to either escape poverty or are kidnapped into group (don"t join for ideological reasons) Most loyal members tend to be peasants. And drug trade farc originally provided security for drug trade, then started manufacturing. Interesting because unlike others that depended for money (from states) the.
