Status Updates From The FARC: The Longest Insur...

"By 1998, it was estimated that the FARC’s ranks had swelled to 18,000 fighters and that the guerrilla group controlled 622 of the nation’s 1,071 municipalities, up from 173 in 1985."

Wow!

"While much attention has been paid to the FARC’s taxation of the illicit drug trade in an effort to delegitimize the guerrillas, many analysts have ignored the fact that the guerrillas tax all – legal and illegal – economic activity in the regions under their control."

Pecunia non olet

"Many peasants prefer guerrilla justice to the endemic corruption and inefficiency that have plagued the country’s government-run legal system."

So common in Latin America.

"Those rare occasions on which rural Colombians had to deal with the national government usually involved confrontations with military forces operating in the interests of Bogotá’s political and economic elite."