Sara Ospina

Ms. Caruso
UWRT
1 March 2016

How The FARC is going to be stopped

The FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) are revolutionary

communist guerrilla terrorists organization that resides deep in Colombias jungles.
The FARC are best known for frug trafficking cocaine, kidnapping political
opponents, and fighting the Colombian military in what was escalated into a fifty
year old civil war. The Colombian government and the FARC have been fighting
since the mid 1960s over a conflict that involved a peasant community and a
military invasion. The FARC emerged in the early 1960s as a peasant movement
that had fought to establish a rural self-governing community in the city of
Marquetalia.
The FARCs main cause is based around the ideology of communism, which is
rooted in the struggle against inequality by a dominant capitalist class over a
suppressed peasant working class. The FARC view the past and present Colombian
government as an oppressor toward the peasant working class, only to favor and
cater to capitalist elite for their own self interests while [the] working class struggles
to earn enough to make a living. The FARCs overall objective is to take power and
govern in coalition with other progressive parties and movements in a multiparty
system in which the centerpiece of socioeconomic policy will be equitable
redistribution of wealth and resources (Petras). Colombias government has been

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plagued over the years with corruption, social inequality, and unequal ownership of
land, wealth and privilege disputes, which the FARC regards as a threat to their
cause. The Colombian government does not tolerate the presence of the
participation of any alternative political views that are responsible for the class
conflict. These measures make the FARCs cause for fighting seem legitimate in the
eyes of the majority because they argue that their organization is standing up
against the inequality of the governing elite that has published back all possible
solutions to the secular problems that embrace Colombian society.
The FARCs activity began to intensify in the 1990s when the Colombian
government started to involve neoliberal policies into its political platform. This
meant that the social gains of the working class were eliminated. The labor unions
were weakened by their removal from the privatized state companies. Thousands of
workers in the private sector were laid off. In the mist of these measures came
protests by the mobalization of different labor groups that attracted a peasant
movement that helped blocked off national roadways in hopes of gaining the
Colombian governments attention for the disapproval of neo-liberal policies. The
peasant movement emerged as a sub-group that grabbed the attention of the FARC,
because the FARC supports peasants and working class individuals that the
government tries to bring injustice to. Some of these peasant groups are engaged in
the coca producing business, which is illegal in Colombia. Because the production of
cocaine is illegal, it requires the protection by the FARC rebels in order for the
peasants to provide a way to make a living. The FARC are not the actual makers of
the production of the cocaine, but rather the suppliers of land and communities
were the peasants produce coca for the drug cartels. The FARC view the drug trade
as a legitimate way of producing for the means of community and reason to keep

Things in red are either misspellings or grammatical errors.

The two sentences in blue seem to contradict themselves. I may be understanding, but it seems
like you were saying the FARC liked the drug trade in the first sentence and then in the second
sentence it sounded like they were against drug trading.

fighting the Colombian government for their unequal treatment of workers and
corrupt policies of neo-liberalism that polarizes certain groups from participating in
society.
The FARC have used successful U.S and Colombian anti-drug policies as
strategic maneuvers as a method of addressing issues on which they are
concerned. Some of these anti-drug policies include the dismantling of the Medellin
and Cali drug cartels and the interception of the coca coming into Colombian
processing facilities. The U.S. used drug certification requirements as a way to
pressure the Colombian government to attack drug cartels and allow aerial
fumigation of coca crops (Duncan). These tactics played right into the FARCs
hands because the anti-drug succession pushed coca cultivation into FARC
dominated communities, which in return strengthened the FARCs base and
weakened many of their political and military opponents. The drug cartels are one
of the FARCs most powerful opponents aside from the Colombian military.

Things in red are either misspellings or grammatical errors.

The two sentences in blue seem to contradict themselves. I may be understanding, but it seems
like you were saying the FARC liked the drug trade in the first sentence and then in the second
sentence it sounded like they were against drug trading.