For more than 50 years, the Colombian government battled a leftist rebel group known as the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, in a conflict that claimed 220,000 lives, displaced ...

The FARC discouraged its members from having children. Now 16, the boy arrived with his uncle, who saw the conference as a safe opportunity for him to meet his mother. Advertisement ...

Rodríguez expounded on Las FARC's reach from the island to the mainland. "A lot of the [cocaine] that was coming in from South America was ending up in the continental United States," she said.

HOW DID IT START? The FARC was formed in 1962 by a small group of armed farmers who were fleeing a 10-year civil war in Colombia known as La Violencia.The farmers were left out of a power-sharing ...

Señores de las FARC: es hora de acelerar las negociaciones. ¡Cuántos muertos más necesitamos para entender que ha llegado la hora de la paz! — Juan Manuel Santos (@JuanManSantos) May 22, 2015.

No, Colombia went through a 10-year civil war before the Farc were even founded. During the period known simply as La Violencia (The Violence), between 200,000 and 300,000 people are estimated to ...

Anayibe Rojas Valderrama, alias “Sonia,” was the head of finances for the FARC’s powerful 14th Front, based in Caqueta. I met her in 2001 in the main camp of the 14th Front in Las Peñas Coloradas, on ...

75 people connected to Puerto Rican drug gang “Las FARC” have been indicted. Prosecutors accuse them of killing rivals and feeding them to pet caimans. The gang sold heroin, crack, cocaine ...

T he peace agreement signed on Monday by Colombia’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a rebel group also known as the FARC, will represent a step forward in a conflict ...

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This is in no small part due to La Constru using their international contacts to reactivate the logistics networks of the defunct FARC on both sides of the border in order to move cocaine shipments.