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Military structure of the FARC-EP
The military structure of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia Ejercito del Pueblo , formally began to be developed after the middle of 1964, when the Colombian Army occupied the town of Marquetalia.
The Colombian Army claimed they were cleaning the last remnants of "bandolerism", a mob justice system for displacement of adversaries, developed in the 10 year struggle for power between the Conservative and Liberal parties, during La Violencia (The Violence). They were influenced by the counterinsurgency tactics developed by the United States through its famous School of the Americas. This, of course, was opposed to the vision that ...
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