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Guerrilla warfare in Colombia
Colombia has a long history of instability and violence. Over the past few decades the country has experienced more of civilian rule than military rule due to denial of political power to the military. The two main political parties that competed for power were the Liberal and Conservative parties. The country over the years experienced threats to its democracy due to the existence of rebel groups that adopted guerilla warfare as their strategy of fighting (Roberto, 2010). Some of the common rebel guerilla groups are Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), EPL and M-19. The important question we therefore ask is how did guerilla warfare groups evolve in Colombia (1960-2001)?
By mid 1980s, the country had already attained independence but some of the communities had formed rebel groups based in the villages employing guerilla tactics to fight against the military. These activities posed a great threat to the security and democracy of the country. Understanding the political, social and economic factors behind the evolution of these warfare groups will help us to learn on the reasons why the country has experienced instability over the past decades. It is also interesting to really understand what it took a group like FARC to build itself and become the largest and richest guerilla warfare group in the larger Latin America. The activities of these groups had political, social and economic implications that affected the people. For instance, the groups made attacks on the government which promoted insecurity, example the attack by M-19 group on the Palace of Justice in 1985. The illegal drug trafficking activities had negative implications on the economy as they were illegal activities and no taxes were remitted to the government. Social evils like kidnapping affected social systems within the communities.
Guerilla warfare is a method of combat in which a group of militants, or guerillas, usually want to overpower a larger group, usually the army. The main aim of this method of fighting is to engage the enemy in a long-drawn out warfare so as to wear them down while carrying out surprise attacks (Tse-Tung, 2015). A number of political factors promoted the evolution of these rebel groups, for instance, FARC was formed in 1963 and had aligned themselves to communist ideologies thus they believed through communism, they would be able to offer social justice. FARC has its roots from the liberal-conservative civil war that lasted for a decade, 1948-1958 and grew to be the largest rebel group in Latin America. M-19 was formed by students who had been influenced by the revolutions in Cuba. Economically the growth in illegal trade in exporting marijuana became the major financier for the groups. The groups soon diversified and ventured into selling cocaine with the USA and Europe being the leading importers of the drugs. Socially, the groups felt the need to promote social justice and respect for human rights which for them was lacking in the country (Balcells & Steele, 2016). They wanted to protect the poor from the elites who were undermining them like redistributing land to them.
References
Balcells, L., & Steele, A. (2016). Warfare, political identities, and displacement in Spain and Colombia. Political Geography, 51, 15-29.
Roberto L., (2010). An Analysis of Colombia’s Democracy. Retrieved from: http://www.e-ir.info/2010/04/15/an-analysis-of-colombia%E2%80%99s-democracy/
Tse-Tung, M. (2015). Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare. Pickle Partners Publishing.
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Evolution of guerrilla warfare groups in Colombia (1960-2001)
- Background information on Colombia
- Definition of guerrilla warfare and the main guerrilla warfare groups in Colombia.
- The significance of the study.
- Body
- The social factors that led to the evolution of guerilla warfare groups.
- The political factors that led to evolution of guerrilla warfare groups.
- The economic factors that influenced the evolution of Guerilla warfare groups.
In our conclusion, we will give a summary of the discussed points.
In carrying out this research, different external resources will be used so as to provide insightful information on this topic. The sources used will be cited in the text then be listed on the reference list.
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