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 ...

FARC guerrillas and civilians build barracks in the Transitional Standardization Zone in Pondores, La Guajira department, Colombia, on March 31. (Joaquin Sarmiento/ Agence France-Presse via Getty ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Many hours from La Paz, a village called Las Colinas offers a glimpse of what the future could look like. Built following the peace accord, Las Colinas is home to hundreds of former FARC fighters ...

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 ...

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.

Endless guesswork has been devoted over the years to pinpointing the FARC’s wealth, but the estimates have been largely disparate, focusing on different elements of the FARC’s economy. El Colombiano’s ...

In one of the most unlikely career about-turns imaginable, former FARC guerrillas—best known for high profile kidnappings—want you to come stay with them in the jungle as tourists.

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 ...