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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

1964–2017 · 20th century · Also known as FARC, FARC-EP

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was a Marxist guerrilla group founded in 1964 by Manuel Marulanda and others from peasant self-defence groups. Increasingly financed by kidnapping and the drug trade, it fought the Colombian state for more than five decades. After a peace agreement signed in 2016 with President Juan Manuel Santos it disarmed and became a political party, though dissident groups fought on.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/revolutionary-armed-forces-of-colombia
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