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Bringing into your lingo, NDD, not understanding this stuff is like not understanding what role Marx, Castro and the Pope played in Latin America.
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And there you have it. To understand the FARC or AUC (arguably the two biggest threats in the region), you don't have to understand Marx, Castro or the Pope. You have to understand Pablo Escobar and simple supply-demand economics. Hell, to understand the AUC, I'm not even real sure you need to even understand Carlos Castano anymore.
In the case of the FARC, it is an interesting academic exercise and worth the effort inc ase they change again when the old man dies. But they are no more communist than Greenhat anymore. The FARC of today bears very little resemblance to the FARC of the 60s, 70s or even 80s.