Peasants organization
also: peasant-based operations, poor peasantry
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aircraft that can detect these submarines. We're seeing that played out today. Colombia has been experiencing a civil war for more than half a century. What was begun as a mission of the Colombian army backed by the United States to attack …
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of the Transnational Institute, an independent research center that specializes in drug issues in Colombia, describes the role of the FARC as primarily focused on taxation of illicit crops. And of course, coca production was not considered …
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For the FARC campesinos, their mantra is not to get rich from coca. The narco elite view the FARC as an obstacle to their source of wealth and, more critically, a threat to their existence as a class. In contrast to Central American peace a…
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In the insurgency, quote, the guerrillas will be just as strong without coca. They can increase kidnapping and extortion to support themselves. They're powerful in many parts of the country that don't have any coca, unquote. Evidence shows …
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Members of the narco elite, the cartels, the high-ranking military officers, and the paramilitary leaders would take the land closest to the controlled FARC to drive them off and kill their support base. This insurgency strategy has been co…
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The cocoa plantations in rebel-held territories became the source of economic survival for the peasants. Support for the FARC grew as the guerrilla protection for the peasants who were trying to earn a living. Cocoa leaf sold at an average …
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Columbia's traditional agricultural export, which was coffee, was dwarfed by the size of the demand for coca leaves. The FARC forced drug merchants and drug traffickers to pay peasants and rural laborers the estimated market price of their …