Igor’s Reviews > The FARC: The Longest Insurgency > Status Update

"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."