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FARC-EP remains open to a negotiated solution to the nation's conflict through dialogue with a flexible government that agrees to certain conditions, such as the demilitarization of certain areas, cessation of paramilitary and government violence against rural peasants, social reforms to reduce poverty and inequality, and the release of all jailed ( and extradited ) FARC-EP rebels.
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FARC-EP and remains
On 29 March 2009, the FARC-EP announced that they would give Guevara's remains to his mother.
FARC-EP remains the largest and oldest insurgent group in the Americas.
FARC-EP and negotiated
After this event, the FARC-EP released a statement saying that defeating the group would not bring peace to Colombia and called for a negotiated solution, not surrender, to the social and political conflict.
FARC-EP and conflict
According to Human Rights Watch, the FARC-EP has killed civilians not involved in the conflict through the use of gas cylinder mortars and its use of landmines.
Arauca is considered one of the regions most affected by the Colombian armed conflict as of 2011, with over 500 guerrillas of the FARC-EP controlling large parts of the department.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC-EP ) is a Marxist – Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia, which is involved in the ongoing Colombian armed conflict.
FARC-EP and through
The FARC-EP originally said that they would only release the police and military members they held captive ( whom they considered to be prisoners of war ) through exchanges with the government for imprisoned FARC-EP members.
After the 21 April 2001 capture of Brazilian drug lord Luiz Fernando da Costa ( aka Fernandinho Beira-Mar ) in Colombia, Colombian and Brazilian authorities accused him of cooperating with FARC-EP through the exchange of weapons for cocaine.
According to press reports, the Caribbean Bloc of the FARC-EP ( Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ) controls several of the department's gold mines and manages 48. 000 hectares of land through figureheads.
According to U. S. intelligence ( such as CIA ), the FARC-EP has purchased thousands of AK-47 rifles from Russia, through connections with the Russian mafia.
FARC-EP and dialogue
Before the break off of dialogue, a letter written by a group of Colombian intellectuals ( among whom were Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez ) to the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board was released denouncing the approach taken by the FARC-EP and the dire consequences that it was having for the country.
Before the break off of dialogue, a letter written by a group of Colombian intellectuals ( among whom were Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez ) to the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board was released denouncing the approach taken by the FARC-EP and the dire consequences that it was having for the country.
FARC-EP and with
In 1985, members of the FARC-EP, along with a large number of other leftist and communist groups, formed a political party known as the Union Patriótica (" Patriotic Union ", UP ).
While many members of the UP were involved with the FARC-EP, the large majority of them were not and came from a wide variety of backgrounds such as labor unions and socialist parties such as the PCC.
In the cities, the FARC-EP began integrating itself with the UP and forming Juntas Patrióticas ( or " solidarity cells ") -- small groups of people associated with labor unions, student activist groups, and peasant leagues, who traveled into the barrios discussing social problems, building support for the UP, and determining the sociopolitical stance of the urban peasantry.
During this period, the Colombian government continued its negotiations with the FARC-EP and other armed groups, some of which were successful.
Towards the end of 1990, the army, with no advance warning and while negotiations were still ongoing with the group, attacked a compound known as Casa Verde, which housed the National Secretariat of the FARC-EP.
According to social anthropologist María Clemencia Ramírez, the relationship between the guerrillas and the marches was ambivalent: FARC-EP promoted the 1996 protests as part of their participatory democracy policies yet also exercised authoritarianism, which led to tensions and negotiations with peasant leaders, but the cocalero movement brought proposals on behalf of the coca growers and defended its own interests.
A 48-hour respite that had been previously agreed to with the rebel group was not respected as the government argued that it had already been granted during an earlier crisis in January, when most of the more prominent FARC-EP commanders had apparently left the demilitarized zone.
On 15 February 2002, the Colombia Three were charged with training FARC-EP members in bomb-making in Colombia.
The Colombian authorities had received satellite footage, probably supplied by the CIA, of the men with FARC-EP in an isolated jungle area, where they are thought to have spent the last five weeks.
The missing witness, a former police inspector, said he had seen Mr McCauley with FARC-EP members in 1998.
The FARC-EP also mention in the communique that Simón Trinidad's extradition, would be a serious obstacle to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement with the government.
On 13 January 2008, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez stated his disapproval with the FARC-EP strategy of armed struggle and kidnapping saying " I don't agree with kidnapping and I don't agree with armed struggle ".
On 7 March at the Cumbre de Rio, Chavez stated again that the FARC-EP should lay down their arms " Look at what has happened and is happening in Latin America, reflect on this ( FARC-EP ), we are done with war ... enough with all this death ".
Tulio Lizcano was a hostage for over 8 years, and escaped with a FARC-EP rebel he convinced to travel with him.
With the military tightening the noose, a FARC-EP rebel turned himself in and provided Colombian authorities with Lizcano's exact location in the northwest state of Choco.
FARC-EP and government
The FARC-EP, in response to government military operations in the south and in the southeast, would now be displacing its military center of gravity towards the Nariño, Putumayo and Cauca departments.
On 2 December 2004, the government announced the pardon of 23 FARC-EP prisoners, to encourage a reciprocal move.
In November 2004, the FARC-EP had rejected a proposal to hand over 59 of its captives in exchange for 50 guerrillas imprisoned by the government.
On 17 December 2004, the Colombian government authorized Trinidad's extradition to the United States, but stated that the measure could be revoked if the FARC-EP released all political hostages and military captives in its possession before 30 December.
" The Colombian government stated that government forces had not made any rescue attempts and that the FARC-EP executed the hostages.
In a statement published on a pro-rebel Web site, the FARC-EP said the unilateral release demonstrated the group's willingness to engage the Colombian government in talks over the release of as many as 800 people who are still being held.
Researcher Claudia López considered that the Colombian government is winning the strategic and aerial side of the war but not the infantry front, where both the FARC-EP and ELN continue to maintain an offensive capacity.
In January 2011 Juan Manuel Santos admitted that FARC-EP had killed 460 government soldiers and wounded over 2, 000 in 2010.
In those FARC-EP controlled territories that do produce coca, it is generally grown by peasants on small plots ; in paramilitary or government controlled areas, coca is generally grown on large plantations.
According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.
The FARC-EP says it will continue its armed struggle because it perceives the current Colombian government as an enemy because of historical politically motivated violence against its members and supporters including members of the Patriotic Union, a FARC-EP-created political party.
Political commentators say that the ' resurgence ' of groups like FARC-EP in Vichada and other regions present an ' immense challenge ' to the government of Juan Manuel Santos.
Colombia is in the midst of a civil war which has been waged since 1966 between the Colombian government and aligned rightwing paramilitaries against two communist guerrilla groups ; the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army ( FARC-EP ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ).
In 1998, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo or FARC-EP ( Spanish for " Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army ") has staged a large-scale guerrilla offensive against the government of Colombia.
During this period, the Colombian government continued its negotiations with the FARC-EP and other armed groups, some of which were successful.
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